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And welcome to
the 38th annual NBA All-Star game...
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from Chicago Stadium.
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A standing-room-only crowd.
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A steal by Jordan.
he spun it away from the Mailman.
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Just needs a little time-out to reorganize.
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And the chances
of a West comeback are slipping away.
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Aguirre for three.
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I have never seen an All-Star game...
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that had such spectacular passing...
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and plays,
and thundering plays like this.
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They're beginning to hang, Billy.
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Ah, what a way to end this ball game.
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Right now, I wanna, you know,
play in the NBA...
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like anybody else would wanna be.
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That's who -
That's something...
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I dream and think
about all the time -
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playing in the NBA.
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he's just doing something
that he loves so much.
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he just love it so much.
I'm just happy for him.
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If somebody can understand
the way William play...
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that'll make me feel
a lot better.
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The way they should have
understood the way I played.
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This Chicagoan
is making his seventh All-Star appearance.
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From the Detroit Pistons, 6'1 "...
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Isiah Thomas!
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When I get in the NBA...
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the first thing I'm gonna do...
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I'm gonna see my mama, buy her a house...
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I'm gonna go there and make sure
my sister and my brother's okay.
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If we were okay or not.
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Probably get my dad...
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a Cadillac Oldsmobile...
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so he can cruise in the games.
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Something real long.
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Dominique.! Ooh.!
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he dreams about it.
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he look at those basketball commercials...
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where they be advertising these Nike shoes?
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he'll tell his little, small brother...
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"Joe,Joe, that's me. "
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So the West leads.
Thomas trying to go the distance. Loses it.
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I don't even think about
it, if he don't make it.
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Just 'cause I'm so -
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I'm so, you know,
focused in on him making it.
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I just know he'll make it.
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I'm off to Central...
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and the Congress
Expressway-
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a park over there where there are
some pretty talented young men.
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Earl Smith works downtown
as an insurance executive.
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On weekends he's an unofficial talent scout
for several area high schools.
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This is what you call
"beating the bushes. "
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This is the job
of most of your freshmen coaches...
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and guys like me who -
who played a little bit of the game...
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who love trying to help young people
on the road to success.
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It's in! It's in!
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Today Earl spots Arthur Agee,
whojust graduated from grammar school.
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he's got the quickest first step
that I've seen in about five years.
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his first step.
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I will bet you a steak dinner
in four years you'll be hearing from him.
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I don't even know anything about him.
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Several days later,
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Earl takes Arthur and his family
on a recruiting visit...
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to the high school
where NBA star Isiah Thomas played.
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The visit will give
St. Joseph's coaches...
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a chance to see Arthur perform.
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Your role today, Arthur...
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is to impress the coaches.
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Try not to be too fancy.
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Take the open shot when you have it.
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Play good defense
and make good passes.
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The rest of it,
just play natural,you know.
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I'm hoping I'm gonna go to St. Joe
and play...
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but first I gotta -
I gotta get my books straight.
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And...
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hopefully come out
and impress the coaches.
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Is it kinda scary?
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Yes, it is.
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I've never been to a school
way out before...
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and I would be going to a school
with different kids, different races.
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You can look at the scenery,
new friends to meet.
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What if Isiah's there today?
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Well, if he be there...
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I'll be shocked...
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'cause that'd be my first time
ever seeing him...
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up close, you know, real life.
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Basketball has to be second
to your academics.
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If you don't get your grades,
you're not gonna play.
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If you work hard at the grades,
and if you work hard at basketball...
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then I would be able to help you
as far as going to college.
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And I guarantee this.
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I can't promise you where you're gonna go
and if you're gonna be a star...
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but I guarantee that I would help you
get into the school...
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that would be best for you.
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I'm making a commitment to you...
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if you make a commitment
to being part of this kind of a program.
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Out of all of the kids
at the St. Joseph Basketball Camp...
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there are a few like Arthur
that Coach Pingatore is recruiting.
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It was like million of guys
trying to be better than the other...
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but, to me,
I was better than all of them...
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except Isiah.
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It gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you a graduate of St. Joe's...
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high school all-American...
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all-American from Indiana University...
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five-time NBAAll-Star...
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Isiah Thomas.
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hello. how are you?
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In everybody's neighborhood,
there's a guy who can really play.
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he can shoot the lights out.
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Every time down the court -
Swish, swish, swish!
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Then he goes to St. Joseph high School...
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and the guy gets cut.
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You say, "But Tom was real good.
Why did he get cut?'"
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See, Tom didn't learn
the fundamentals of team basketball...
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which is what you're learning
how to play.
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he told my daddy
that he knew I could play...
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so hejust had to play me hard.
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I can see the playground in him.
I can see talent.
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But I don't see the confidence.
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With Isiah, I just knew
he was gonna be a great one.
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he had that total combination
of personality, confidence, talent...
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intelligence.
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I think I see it in one kid
that's coming here.
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he flows with a smoothness
and confidence...
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and strength...
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that you don't see in every kid.
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But he could become a great player.
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You gotta take a shot.
Always work it. You can't block it.
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Ohh.!
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I just bang him and bruise him.
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I'm trying to let him know right now
you gonna get hit, get knocked down...
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you gonna get banged around,
so you better get used to it now.
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Stop it. One-hand hook.
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All these basketball dreams I had,
they gone.
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All I see -All my dreams in him now.
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I want him to make it so bad,
I don't know what to do.
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They want to play basketball
and stuff, that was always okay.
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But I was gonna make sure all of'em
got through high school.
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A high school diploma
was very important to me.
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My mother,
she was like mother and father to me.
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She don't want me really
hanging around over here that much...
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'cause of the gangs.
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I feel if I go to St. Joseph...
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I'll at least get a good chance
to go to a good college.
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That would be good for me.
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That was my first son.
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I said, "That's Daddy's man, '"
so wejust started calling him "Man. '"
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Get around it!
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I could have been a good college player.
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Most likely
I would have made it to the pros.
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But, you know, once I had my son...
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I knew then something good
was gonna come out of it.
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I think the talent gonna be passed on.
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he told me, "I'm so scared of growing up. "
I said, "Why?"
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he said a grown-up has so many problems.
"I got so many things on my mind. "
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I just want Arthur to have more...
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you know,
have a better life than what I had.
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I don't want him experiencing
bad things that I went through in life.
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Austin Boulevard
will be the next stop. Austin is next.
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Like Isiah Thomas before them...
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both Arthur and William make
a three-hour round trip each day...
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between the city and St. Joseph's.
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That was strange for me
going out to a far-out school.
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I saw a rug, flowers, clean hallways...
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things that I didn't see
in an ordinary school.
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Gotta move! Gotta move!
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Come on.
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- Three, four, five or 10?
- Ten.
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You got it. Three, four, five?
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Arthur wins the starting
point-guard position on the freshmen team.
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Agee, I want you to find
in that warm-up number two.
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Brown, number three.
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Ettmeyer, four.
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hey, Arthur, you know
if you miss free throws...
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they count 'em up,
and you have to pay 15 cents.
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Then if you don't pay
it, they gonna make you
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run 50 laps, and still
you have to pay the money.
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- You still gotta pay the money?
- That's way out.
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When Arthur first started at St. Joseph's...
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he was a good kid,
from what we saw...
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but he was very immature.
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he might have been a little more
disruptive, speaking out...
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getting into childish things.
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he wasn't used to the discipline
and the control.
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he reverted back to, maybe,
his environment, where he came from.
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I just never been around
a lot of white people and...
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it was different, because at a black school
I could associate with the people.
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They talk the way I talk.
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It was a little hard,
but I can adjust to it.
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You can see there was talent there.
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We kept saying up in the stands,
"Get the ball to Arthur...
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because he's going to do it for you. '"
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And sure enough, they gave him the ball
with seconds on the clock.
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I noticed a change immediately
after he started going out there.
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To see your child mature, you say,
"Oh, maybe this is good for him. "
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William begins
his freshman season on St. Joe's varsity...
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the top-ranked squad in the state.
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he's already received several letters...
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from Division I schools -
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Marquette and Rice and Creighton,
Illinois State...
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to name a few.
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Beat him! Beat him! Beat him!
Keep back!
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hold it up! hold it up!
You're killing us!
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Why did he get to the ball before you?
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he asks me, do I wanna be
a great player? And I keep saying yeah.
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he said, "For four years,
I'm gonna be on you every day. "
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So he said, "You might as well
get used to it now. "
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hard left. No, no. Go hard left.
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Right, I know you can do it.
Left, you can't. All right? Go hard.
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Not bad. Do it again.
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If you look at Matthew,
and again he's saying...
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at the time the kingdom ofheaven
will be like this.
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This is how Matthew's gonna useJesus.
This is how he's gonna start it out.
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What this is saying
is you have to take the faith-
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When I first came out here,
it was, like, "I wanna go home.
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Is this really the right school for me?'"
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But every little thing you do
that go against their rule...
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you have detention.
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And they'll suspend you quick
at the school too.
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They'll suspend you quick.
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The kids that are willing to do it...
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are gonna take something away
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that will help them for
the rest of their life.
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The kids that are not willing to do it...
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for whatever reason, uh...
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are not gonna be very successful
as far as here.
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The civil rights movement
started up in the '50s.
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When William first entered St. Joe's...
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tests revealed he was working
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.
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I could see that he had the potential...
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but because he was shy, it seemed as though
no one was trying to reach him.
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Sister Marilyn told me,
"You have to be one good ballplayer...
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to get in this school with these grades. '"
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- What war beginning in the '60s?
- Vietnam.
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At the end of the year,
he had gone four grades above...
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just in the way he listened and learned.
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Back in grammar school...
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academics really didn't matter
too much to me at all.
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It was playing ball for the team-
really, we was the standouts in the school.
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If you showed up in class,
that was good enough for them.
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I was just going to school for the girls.
241
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Trip out with your friends...
242
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get out, go play some more basketball.
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That was basically it.
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Arthur also entered St. Joe's
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.
245
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Nobody in their right mind
is crazy about school.
246
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If the president brought
up a thing right now
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that say, "Close all schools"...
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do you think any kids would be trying
to go out there, stand on a picket line...
249
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and wave and get billboards...
250
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saying, "Reopen schools"?
251
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Nice and tall, guys.
Now, don't look at the flash.
252
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Arthur was in
the lower group of the general program.
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Okay, fellas. Good.
254
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At the end of the year,
he was still in the lower group.
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One, two, three.!
256
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For Arthur, the season is over.
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his freshman team finished second
in the conference.
258
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William's varsity is rolling
through the play-offs.
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Against Proviso East,
William plays his best game yet.
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And the Chargers move a step closer
to going downstate to compete for the title.
261
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St. Joe's made it downstate
five of the last six years.
262
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The one thing we haven't done
is win a state tournament.
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Man, that'd be a big thing
if I could go downstate as a freshman.
264
00:21:54,750 --> 00:21:57,514
Isiah was good enough
to start on the varsity as a freshman.
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I didn't do it because I was worried
about bringing him along too rapidly.
266
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I think by not doing it,
it cost us a state championship.
267
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In the sectional finals,
Fenwick challenges St. Joe's title hopes.
268
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But in the second quarter,
William steps up.
269
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With his brother Curtis looking on...
270
00:22:22,044 --> 00:22:26,003
William scores 16 points to lead
the Chargers to the sectional title.
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From Chicago, it's The Sports Writers On TV.
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I think I may have seen
the next Isiah Thomas.
273
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St. Joe of Westchester
has a kid named William Gates...
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who is starting as a freshman.
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Remember, you heard it first
from Bill Gleason.
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Put it in your memory banks,
ladies and gentlemen.
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William Gates.
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In the supersectionals,
St. Joe's meets DeSalles...
279
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to decide who will go downstate.
280
00:23:04,086 --> 00:23:06,202
William plays more like
an intimidated freshman
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than a freshman sensation.
282
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Six-nine senior all-American
Eric Anderson dominates St. Joe's.
283
00:23:18,568 --> 00:23:22,163
But in the third quarter,
William takes over again.
284
00:23:23,272 --> 00:23:27,003
he fires over Anderson
and is fouled.
285
00:23:29,545 --> 00:23:31,945
William's 13 points
in the second half...
286
00:23:32,048 --> 00:23:34,346
pull the Chargers to within four.
287
00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:41,547
With less than two minutes to play,
it's a must-score.
288
00:23:52,535 --> 00:23:54,799
St. Joe's jump shot falls short.
289
00:24:00,176 --> 00:24:02,610
Eric Anderson.!
290
00:24:18,227 --> 00:24:20,957
Despite the loss,
William's gutty performance...
291
00:24:21,063 --> 00:24:22,963
bodes well for next year.
292
00:24:23,065 --> 00:24:24,328
There will be an announcement
293
00:24:24,329 --> 00:24:26,262
on ticket sales immediately
following the game.
294
00:24:30,139 --> 00:24:32,937
Rewriting 7,300 times 10...
295
00:24:33,042 --> 00:24:36,705
to the negative fifth
in scientific notation.
296
00:24:36,812 --> 00:24:38,871
Who wants that problem?
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- I do.
- Go ahead, William.
298
00:24:40,983 --> 00:24:42,917
- 7.3...
- 7.3...
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- times 10 to the third.
- times 10 to the third times-
300
00:24:46,355 --> 00:24:48,550
- 10 to the negative second.
- Is that good!
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Very good.
302
00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:53,595
When I went out there,
I was very intimidated...
303
00:24:53,696 --> 00:24:56,631
'cause I just knew that everybody out there
was just smarter than me.
304
00:24:57,667 --> 00:25:00,397
As the year went on...
305
00:25:00,503 --> 00:25:02,801
and I was making
an "A'"and "B'"honor roll...
306
00:25:02,905 --> 00:25:06,102
I just felt like,
"hey, I'm just as good as them. '"
307
00:25:07,510 --> 00:25:09,808
Now what you have to identify-
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00:25:09,912 --> 00:25:13,643
Both William and Arthur
have partial scholarships from St. Joe's.
309
00:25:13,749 --> 00:25:16,240
The rest of William's tuition
is paid for by Cycle...
310
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a Cabrini Green organization.
311
00:25:18,354 --> 00:25:21,380
But Cycle can't cover
this year's tuition increase.
312
00:25:21,490 --> 00:25:24,982
I was called on
by Brother Edwin Duprais.
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00:25:25,094 --> 00:25:27,221
he was trying to raise money
to help kids...
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00:25:27,330 --> 00:25:30,026
that couldn't otherwise go
to those kind of schools.
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00:25:30,132 --> 00:25:32,327
It really touched a soft spot in my heart...
316
00:25:32,435 --> 00:25:36,337
and so I decided that my husband and I
would participate on a personal basis.
317
00:25:36,439 --> 00:25:39,704
William was selected as the kid...
318
00:25:39,809 --> 00:25:42,676
that was able to go to school,
based on our contribution.
319
00:25:42,778 --> 00:25:44,803
- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
320
00:25:44,914 --> 00:25:49,214
You played a great game. I want you to
meet our friends Liz Duncan, Tom Paris.
321
00:25:49,318 --> 00:25:51,218
- Nice game.
- William Gates.
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00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,550
With continuing support
from Patricia Wier...
323
00:25:53,656 --> 00:25:57,114
William is assured
that his entire education at St. Joe's...
324
00:25:57,226 --> 00:25:59,456
will be free.
325
00:26:03,833 --> 00:26:06,961
Arthur's family is paying
for half ofhis tuition...
326
00:26:07,069 --> 00:26:10,527
and the increase comes
at an especially bad time.
327
00:26:10,639 --> 00:26:13,164
Worked for Sara Lee, got laid off.
328
00:26:13,275 --> 00:26:17,541
Uh, worked for Scala's Meat Packing.
Got laid off there. You know.
329
00:26:17,646 --> 00:26:21,241
You look around your house,
you see your food getting low. Okay?
330
00:26:21,350 --> 00:26:26,310
And you got your bills due here,
your bills due there.
331
00:26:30,192 --> 00:26:32,660
I got called down to the office.
332
00:26:32,762 --> 00:26:34,855
Brother Leo wanted to talk to me.
333
00:26:34,964 --> 00:26:38,627
he was telling me about how much,
certain money my mama had to pay...
334
00:26:38,734 --> 00:26:40,793
for me to stay in school.
335
00:26:40,903 --> 00:26:44,361
They say if she don't have it by this time,
you gotta stay out till she pay it.
336
00:26:44,473 --> 00:26:47,465
I was staying out, like,
two and three weeks and stuff.
337
00:26:47,576 --> 00:26:50,101
By the end of the freshman year...
338
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whatever balance there was for tuition
was never taken care of.
339
00:26:54,617 --> 00:26:57,051
Consequently,
going into the sophomore year...
340
00:26:57,153 --> 00:26:59,417
we had the balance
plus the new tuition...
341
00:26:59,522 --> 00:27:02,252
so that it was going to continue
to become a problem.
342
00:27:02,358 --> 00:27:05,759
Whatever scout that they have come out
to these different neighborhoods...
343
00:27:05,861 --> 00:27:08,329
and scout out
these little basketball players...
344
00:27:08,431 --> 00:27:11,867
and get 'em to come to their school
and offer them these scholarships.
345
00:27:11,967 --> 00:27:14,435
Then once they get out there,
the story is totally different.
346
00:27:14,537 --> 00:27:17,973
I was under the impression that Arthur would
have help as far as getting to school...
347
00:27:18,073 --> 00:27:21,008
Arthur would have help
in getting his books.
348
00:27:21,110 --> 00:27:23,271
But, see, none of that occur.
349
00:27:23,379 --> 00:27:28,146
Finally, with the Agees
owing $ 1,500 in back payments...
350
00:27:28,250 --> 00:27:31,185
St. Joseph's forced Arthur
to leave the school.
351
00:27:33,189 --> 00:27:36,522
I thought Pingatore and them
would help me out, but -
352
00:27:41,497 --> 00:27:44,227
You have to draw the line
because, as I said...
353
00:27:44,333 --> 00:27:48,292
tuition is something that,
as a school, we depend on...
354
00:27:48,404 --> 00:27:50,634
for 90%% of our revenue.
355
00:27:50,739 --> 00:27:53,765
I guess he thought I wasn't gonna be
that big of a ballplayer.
356
00:27:53,876 --> 00:27:57,312
So why would he just waste some money
on me staying there?
357
00:27:57,413 --> 00:27:59,381
Or, you know, he thought
I wasn't gonna grow.
358
00:27:59,482 --> 00:28:03,043
he kept on saying,
"When are you gonna grow?"
359
00:28:03,152 --> 00:28:05,120
Well, I don't know.
360
00:28:06,822 --> 00:28:10,280
If I had known that all of this
was gonna lead to this...
361
00:28:10,392 --> 00:28:13,122
Arthur would have never went
to St. Joseph's.
362
00:28:13,229 --> 00:28:16,198
I mean, if I had known that he was gonna
have to go through this type of pain...
363
00:28:16,298 --> 00:28:18,198
and myself- the anguish of it...
364
00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:21,929
and then to put him out
in the middle of a school year-
365
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,291
I.D. 's, ladies and gentlemen.
366
00:28:56,005 --> 00:28:57,905
All right. Okay, okay. All right.
367
00:29:00,175 --> 00:29:02,268
Can't take no beepers in here.
368
00:29:02,378 --> 00:29:04,903
Give me my beeper, man.
369
00:29:06,282 --> 00:29:08,079
Mr. Wade, I need to see you
at the front door.
370
00:29:08,183 --> 00:29:11,778
Now where you gonna go?
Your friend go to jail. No beepers in here.
371
00:29:11,887 --> 00:29:13,787
Don't make no scene.
372
00:29:13,889 --> 00:29:17,017
Arthur is accepted
at the public high school near his home.
373
00:29:17,126 --> 00:29:21,825
he's been out of school for two months
and lost a whole semester's credit.
374
00:29:23,666 --> 00:29:25,560
here you have a youngster caught
375
00:29:25,561 --> 00:29:28,103
in the middle of two
separate school systems.
376
00:29:28,203 --> 00:29:30,501
had he stayed at St. Joseph's...
377
00:29:30,606 --> 00:29:33,871
he would have been able to receive
credit for that first semester.
378
00:29:34,977 --> 00:29:37,878
Doesn't seem fair,
but then that's the system.
379
00:29:39,548 --> 00:29:42,711
If he was going out there and he was playing
like they had predicted him to play...
380
00:29:42,818 --> 00:29:44,718
he wouldn't be at Marshall.
381
00:29:44,820 --> 00:29:47,550
Economics wouldn't have had anything
to do with him not being at St. Joe's.
382
00:29:47,656 --> 00:29:49,026
Somebody would have made some kind of
383
00:29:49,027 --> 00:29:50,989
arrangement, and the kid
would've still been there.
384
00:29:51,093 --> 00:29:54,358
he's not making it like they thought he was
gonna make it on the basketball court...
385
00:29:54,463 --> 00:29:56,397
so he's not there, simple as that.
386
00:29:56,498 --> 00:29:59,262
It doesn't take no brilliant person
to figure that out.
387
00:30:03,639 --> 00:30:07,541
It's mid-season
when Arthurjoins the sophomore team.
388
00:30:07,643 --> 00:30:11,044
he was so depressed and devastated,
hejust closed himself off in the room.
389
00:30:11,146 --> 00:30:16,550
I would go in there and tell him
every day, "hey, things will look up. '"
390
00:30:18,754 --> 00:30:21,348
Coming off the bench,
Arthur wears number 11...
391
00:30:21,457 --> 00:30:23,584
Isiah Thomas's number.
392
00:30:35,437 --> 00:30:37,905
What kind of techniques were being used...
393
00:30:38,007 --> 00:30:41,033
to take away the freedoms
that had been earned?
394
00:30:41,143 --> 00:30:43,441
- Jeannetta.
- Poll tax.
395
00:30:43,545 --> 00:30:46,742
Poll tax. Okay, Arthur,
what other techniques were used...
396
00:30:46,849 --> 00:30:49,477
to keep black Americans from voting?
397
00:30:49,585 --> 00:30:51,485
Um-
398
00:30:51,587 --> 00:30:53,885
You could almost forget
about his being there.
399
00:30:53,989 --> 00:30:56,549
That's how quiet he really was.
400
00:30:56,659 --> 00:31:00,117
I think the transition
had something to do with it.
401
00:31:03,966 --> 00:31:06,434
In comparing
Marshall high School to St. Joseph...
402
00:31:06,535 --> 00:31:08,469
I don't think
that there is any comparison.
403
00:31:08,570 --> 00:31:11,038
People can afford
to send their children there.
404
00:31:11,140 --> 00:31:14,439
They can afford to put money
into the school.
405
00:31:14,543 --> 00:31:16,477
Once they walk in those doors...
406
00:31:16,578 --> 00:31:19,775
they walk in there to get that diploma
and to go on to college.
407
00:31:19,882 --> 00:31:23,978
Whereas our students,
if they get out ofhigh school...
408
00:31:24,086 --> 00:31:26,850
a lot of them,
it's an accomplishment.
409
00:31:26,955 --> 00:31:30,550
Trinomial. What's this gonna be?
Both of these are what?
410
00:31:30,659 --> 00:31:33,594
Ifhe wanna go back next year...
411
00:31:33,696 --> 00:31:35,994
he gonna go back, if I have to beg.
412
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,058
Because, uh, I wanna help him
with his little dream.
413
00:31:47,843 --> 00:31:51,279
Arthur's mother, Sheila,
has lost her minimum-wagejob...
414
00:31:51,380 --> 00:31:53,280
as a nurse's assistant...
415
00:31:53,382 --> 00:31:55,646
because of chronic back pain.
416
00:31:59,088 --> 00:32:02,114
It's just a real hard area
to live in, period.
417
00:32:02,224 --> 00:32:04,692
And as far as raising kids -
418
00:32:06,095 --> 00:32:08,859
kids don't even have a playground
or play area...
419
00:32:08,964 --> 00:32:11,865
anything constructive to do
in the neighborhood.
420
00:32:11,967 --> 00:32:15,095
But you see why half of them
become gangbangers, you know.
421
00:32:15,204 --> 00:32:18,264
Because it's nothing constructive
in the neighborhood for 'em.
422
00:32:22,411 --> 00:32:26,404
So now it's, like, you more or less
got to keep your kids close to you...
423
00:32:26,515 --> 00:32:28,676
and watch 'em at all times.
424
00:32:48,737 --> 00:32:51,968
In June, after 20 years of marriage...
425
00:32:52,074 --> 00:32:54,702
Arthur's dad leaves the family.
426
00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:16,160
Big logjam into the lane.
Jordan's 15-footer good from out front.
427
00:33:16,265 --> 00:33:19,428
Make sure you look at
how many shots have been taken.
428
00:33:19,535 --> 00:33:23,494
Jordan might shoot, uh, 15 out of 40.
429
00:33:24,573 --> 00:33:26,473
Fifteen out of 40?
430
00:33:26,575 --> 00:33:28,839
I'm just saying, for instance.
he's done it.
431
00:33:28,944 --> 00:33:32,744
But see, if you do that,
you're gonna know about it.
432
00:33:32,848 --> 00:33:34,748
Ooh.
433
00:33:34,850 --> 00:33:37,284
Curtis tells William,
"The most important thing...
434
00:33:37,386 --> 00:33:39,479
is getting the ball in the basket. '"
435
00:33:39,588 --> 00:33:42,318
Curtis said the boy's good.
436
00:33:42,424 --> 00:33:45,154
he say he's real good, but he don't listen.
437
00:33:45,260 --> 00:33:48,229
he said if he listen to him,
he'd be better.
438
00:33:49,464 --> 00:33:53,400
he's always telling me,
you should do this and you should do that.
439
00:33:53,502 --> 00:33:56,369
Seems like everybody I know
is my coach.
440
00:33:58,407 --> 00:34:01,399
I know a whole lot about basketball.
441
00:34:01,510 --> 00:34:03,637
Now it's Isiah Thomas.
442
00:34:03,745 --> 00:34:07,704
I guess, in so many words,
I'm a pro at that in my mind.
443
00:34:09,651 --> 00:34:13,246
The Trojans were led on the
court all season by 6'2'"sophomore guard...
444
00:34:13,355 --> 00:34:15,255
Curtis Gates.
445
00:34:26,001 --> 00:34:30,370
When he went to college,
and Michael Jordan first came to the NBA...
446
00:34:30,472 --> 00:34:35,068
they would,you know, sit around and argue
over him- who could play the best.
447
00:34:37,846 --> 00:34:42,249
Curtis was named Player
of the Decade at ColbyJunior College...
448
00:34:42,351 --> 00:34:46,014
but he also developed a reputation
for being uncoachable.
449
00:34:47,055 --> 00:34:51,719
Curtis's idea of being real good is...
450
00:34:51,827 --> 00:34:55,854
you don't follow the rules,
you do what you wanna do.
451
00:34:55,964 --> 00:35:00,230
Curtis finally signed
at the University of Central Florida...
452
00:35:00,335 --> 00:35:03,964
but he didn't get along with the coach
and rarely played.
453
00:35:04,072 --> 00:35:06,597
Even ifhe didn't play ball...
454
00:35:06,708 --> 00:35:08,608
it was a nice university.
455
00:35:08,710 --> 00:35:10,837
he could have finished school.
456
00:35:10,946 --> 00:35:12,846
But he couldn't handle it.
457
00:35:23,225 --> 00:35:25,352
Security. Can I help you?
458
00:35:25,460 --> 00:35:28,429
I'm used to everybody
in the neighborhood loving me...
459
00:35:28,530 --> 00:35:30,828
and knowing how good I can play.
460
00:35:31,934 --> 00:35:33,350
It just seemed like people looked up
461
00:35:33,351 --> 00:35:35,199
to Curtis Gates when
it came to basketball...
462
00:35:35,304 --> 00:35:37,397
but now...
463
00:35:37,506 --> 00:35:40,031
I'm just a regular old guy
on the street now.
464
00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:54,814
Welcome to the prep game of the week...
465
00:35:54,923 --> 00:35:56,823
in the Class AA Sectional Final.
466
00:35:56,925 --> 00:36:00,258
You got the guru,
the legend, in Gene Pingatore.
467
00:36:00,362 --> 00:36:02,853
Gates.! Good.!
468
00:36:02,965 --> 00:36:05,729
Boy, Gates is on fire.
469
00:36:05,834 --> 00:36:07,802
William Gates is one
of the premier sophomores.
470
00:36:07,903 --> 00:36:10,736
William scores
17 points in the first half...
471
00:36:10,839 --> 00:36:14,570
as the Chargers look to return
to the state finals.
472
00:36:14,676 --> 00:36:17,338
Gates.
473
00:36:17,446 --> 00:36:19,414
Good.!
474
00:36:20,949 --> 00:36:23,213
he is a thoroughbred of a player.
475
00:36:27,122 --> 00:36:29,352
Can they get it done here now?
476
00:36:29,458 --> 00:36:32,825
In the second half, Gordon Tech
turns to their own sophomore star.
477
00:36:32,928 --> 00:36:36,329
Kleinschmidt
drives the middle, puts it up. Good.!
478
00:36:36,431 --> 00:36:40,299
Gordon Tech hangs on to a slender
lead in the waning seconds of the game.
479
00:36:40,402 --> 00:36:42,302
Three-point lead with 12 seconds left.
480
00:36:42,404 --> 00:36:44,304
My guy's William Gates.
481
00:36:44,406 --> 00:36:48,069
I'd like to see him get it,just get to go
one-on-one and pull up and ice it.
482
00:36:52,581 --> 00:36:54,481
Oh, boy. This is it.
483
00:36:55,817 --> 00:36:58,251
- Gates is the man with the ball.
- That's the one I would want.
484
00:36:58,353 --> 00:37:01,117
he's gonna pull up from way out.
Off the front of the rim.!
485
00:37:01,223 --> 00:37:04,488
Kleinschmidt hits it around.
Three seconds left.
486
00:37:04,593 --> 00:37:06,527
Cunningham goes out. It's up.!
487
00:37:06,628 --> 00:37:10,257
No good.! Gordon Tech wins.!
488
00:37:14,036 --> 00:37:17,267
Congratulations
to the Gordon Tech Rams.
489
00:37:17,372 --> 00:37:20,500
They're on a joyride,
one game now from Champaign.
490
00:37:40,695 --> 00:37:42,754
Come on.
491
00:37:42,864 --> 00:37:45,560
Arthur's season ended well,
and he has high hopes...
492
00:37:45,667 --> 00:37:48,295
to play for the varsity next year.
493
00:37:50,605 --> 00:37:53,733
Whoo! Lots of iron on that shit.
494
00:37:55,310 --> 00:37:57,608
Arthur's dad shows up.
495
00:37:57,712 --> 00:37:59,612
Man got big hands.
496
00:37:59,714 --> 00:38:02,342
These days, Arthur rarely sees him.
497
00:38:02,451 --> 00:38:05,477
- Watch this. Watch this dunk.
- Joe, I'm gonna go after you, okay?
498
00:38:05,587 --> 00:38:07,555
Watch this.
499
00:38:15,564 --> 00:38:18,294
You got old legs, Dad.
500
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,300
Old legs.
501
00:38:22,871 --> 00:38:25,101
hey, man.
I'll see you later on, okay?
502
00:38:26,274 --> 00:38:28,174
Bye.
503
00:38:29,511 --> 00:38:31,809
Increasingly, this playground court...
504
00:38:31,913 --> 00:38:34,882
has become a place
to buy and sell drugs.
505
00:38:50,332 --> 00:38:52,232
"Dear Mother...
506
00:38:52,334 --> 00:38:54,461
"I hope when Mother's Day comes...
507
00:38:54,569 --> 00:38:57,231
"you will light up the sky
with a big smile.
508
00:38:57,339 --> 00:39:00,740
"You, Mother,
are the only one in the world...
509
00:39:00,842 --> 00:39:03,140
"who can provide
and take care of me.
510
00:39:03,245 --> 00:39:05,941
"You are the one
that makes our family work.
511
00:39:06,047 --> 00:39:10,450
"You are the one that I will miss so much
when I go away to college.
512
00:39:10,552 --> 00:39:13,112
"No one can replace you ever.
513
00:39:13,221 --> 00:39:15,314
Love always, Man. "
514
00:39:16,391 --> 00:39:18,359
Mother's Day, 1989.
515
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,507
I said to him,
"What are you gonna do this summer?'"
516
00:39:33,608 --> 00:39:35,940
he said, well, he didn't know.
517
00:39:39,414 --> 00:39:41,644
So I said, "Well, if you need a job...
518
00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:43,650
let me know, and I'll see
if I can help you. "
519
00:39:45,220 --> 00:39:47,984
We had a job that didn't require
a lot of previous training...
520
00:39:48,089 --> 00:39:49,989
so we hired him.
521
00:39:50,091 --> 00:39:54,528
I messed up so bad on my first day
'cause I wanted to do everything right.
522
00:39:54,629 --> 00:39:57,393
Just messed up everything.
523
00:39:57,499 --> 00:40:00,297
Puttin' tapes in the wrong numbers...
524
00:40:00,402 --> 00:40:02,370
all sorts of stuff.
525
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,768
But I just pushed myself
to come out here...
526
00:40:08,877 --> 00:40:12,210
because I know, in the long run,
it's gonna be good for myself...
527
00:40:12,314 --> 00:40:15,044
and for my family.
528
00:40:16,251 --> 00:40:19,084
I give my mother $50
out of my checks.
529
00:40:20,121 --> 00:40:22,714
All she done for me, I
don't think there ever
530
00:40:22,715 --> 00:40:25,081
be enough that I can
get to pay her back.
531
00:40:25,193 --> 00:40:28,162
Unless I make pro.
Then I'm pretty sure I can pay her back.
532
00:40:49,351 --> 00:40:51,911
I drew on these.
Look at my name.
533
00:40:53,154 --> 00:40:55,054
Tuss.
534
00:41:00,095 --> 00:41:04,395
I had heard that his nickname used to be
Tuss, so I just started calling myself Tuss.
535
00:41:04,499 --> 00:41:07,024
Say "Tuss. '"
536
00:41:13,975 --> 00:41:17,809
You know, I say,
"Man,you may not make it to the NBA. '"
537
00:41:17,912 --> 00:41:20,210
he said, "Don't keep on
telling me things like that.
538
00:41:20,315 --> 00:41:23,512
That's just like showing me
you don't have any trust in what I do. "
539
00:41:23,618 --> 00:41:27,987
I said, "I do, but don't just keep
putting everything into this. "
540
00:41:28,089 --> 00:41:30,557
he said, "Ain't nobody gonna
take my dream away from me.
541
00:41:30,659 --> 00:41:33,059
That's what I wanna be,
and that's what I'm gonna do. "
542
00:41:36,831 --> 00:41:39,732
Go first.
543
00:41:39,834 --> 00:41:43,736
I say, "hey, it's your dream.
What can we do?'"
544
00:41:43,838 --> 00:41:45,738
Yeah!
545
00:42:04,926 --> 00:42:06,956
"Dear William, Georgetown University
546
00:42:06,957 --> 00:42:09,454
basketball staff is very
interested in you. '"
547
00:42:10,565 --> 00:42:13,796
"We are going to kick off the season
with a midnight madness celebration. "
548
00:42:14,703 --> 00:42:16,637
Bobby Knight called.
549
00:42:16,738 --> 00:42:19,036
Michigan State -
boy, do they ever call.
550
00:42:19,874 --> 00:42:23,037
"Will be on national television. "
551
00:42:26,548 --> 00:42:28,539
Any school you name.
552
00:42:33,254 --> 00:42:37,452
"Dear William, there's gold
at the end of the rainbow.
553
00:42:38,827 --> 00:42:41,295
$500 in there for you too. "
554
00:42:55,443 --> 00:42:57,741
Did you see Isiah play the other night?
555
00:42:57,846 --> 00:42:59,905
Yeah, I caught the end of it.
556
00:43:00,014 --> 00:43:02,312
- how'd you like it?
- he played pretty good.
557
00:43:03,685 --> 00:43:07,314
The whole school
see me as being a Isiah Thomas.
558
00:43:07,422 --> 00:43:10,186
I'm trying to build my own identity.
559
00:43:10,291 --> 00:43:14,250
When I leave, they're gonna be, like,
"You're gonna be the next William Gates. '"
560
00:43:16,197 --> 00:43:18,665
The St. Joseph Chargers
are strictly man-to-man.
561
00:43:18,767 --> 00:43:22,328
- Gene Pingatore believes in that system.
- Watch Isiah come.
562
00:43:22,437 --> 00:43:25,201
- Going down the middle, throws it up.
- What did he do?
563
00:43:25,306 --> 00:43:28,275
- he took the charge.
- he took the charge.
564
00:43:28,376 --> 00:43:32,312
- Something we have to get you to do, right?
- Yeah.
565
00:43:32,414 --> 00:43:35,247
Everything he does
is what a coach is looking for.
566
00:43:35,350 --> 00:43:37,409
You listening?
567
00:43:37,519 --> 00:43:39,714
Out to Clark.
This is Thomas with the ball again.
568
00:43:39,821 --> 00:43:42,688
What an eye.!
569
00:43:42,791 --> 00:43:47,194
You're actually a better shooter
than Isiah from the outside.
570
00:43:47,295 --> 00:43:49,195
True.
571
00:43:49,297 --> 00:43:53,097
That's heads-up ba -
Oh! Thomas! What a move.
572
00:43:53,201 --> 00:43:55,669
That means you have
a lot of responsibility, William.
573
00:43:55,770 --> 00:43:57,829
Can you handle it?
574
00:43:57,939 --> 00:44:00,669
I hope so.
I'm ready to go downstate.
575
00:44:00,775 --> 00:44:02,743
- You wanna go downstate?
- Yeah.
576
00:44:02,844 --> 00:44:07,110
You gotta do something about it.
You have two years to get us down there.
577
00:44:07,215 --> 00:44:09,183
It's going to be all on your head.
578
00:44:09,284 --> 00:44:12,913
Isiah Thomas has just hit his 20th point.
579
00:44:13,955 --> 00:44:15,855
Go.!
580
00:44:16,891 --> 00:44:19,985
hold up.! William.
581
00:44:22,030 --> 00:44:25,625
The man playing defense
dropped way offhere.
582
00:44:25,733 --> 00:44:28,531
Now, who would you rather
have shoot the ball?
583
00:44:28,636 --> 00:44:31,833
Stras shoot the ball there,
or you stop in here and shootin' the ball?
584
00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:34,306
- Me.
- Well, shoot it!
585
00:44:35,443 --> 00:44:36,797
William practices today
586
00:44:36,798 --> 00:44:39,402
having just recovered
from a slight knee injury.
587
00:44:40,915 --> 00:44:43,349
Come on. Let's go.
You're playing soft.
588
00:44:43,451 --> 00:44:46,147
William? Does it bother you?
589
00:44:46,254 --> 00:44:48,586
Don't be afraid though.
Don't favor it.
590
00:44:48,690 --> 00:44:52,057
Tempo.! Tempo.!
591
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,152
hold it. That's bullshit!
592
00:44:55,263 --> 00:44:58,198
You didn't jump to the ball
and deny the man!
593
00:44:58,299 --> 00:45:00,199
Go!
594
00:45:04,973 --> 00:45:07,032
That's still one.
595
00:45:09,310 --> 00:45:11,403
Nope. It's still one.
596
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:16,382
We'll stay here all day
until you get a 10-seconder.
597
00:45:16,484 --> 00:45:18,384
William, you gotta take it easy.
598
00:45:20,421 --> 00:45:22,946
Go!
599
00:45:23,057 --> 00:45:24,649
Go!
600
00:45:24,759 --> 00:45:26,659
Go.
601
00:45:31,499 --> 00:45:33,933
Now we start all over.
602
00:45:34,035 --> 00:45:36,697
You peoplejust refuse to work.
603
00:45:39,574 --> 00:45:42,065
You don't know what it is
to be intense!
604
00:45:42,176 --> 00:45:46,135
And if you don't have it,
you're gonna be crap for this team.!
605
00:45:46,247 --> 00:45:49,114
Give me a good reason why I should
keep you on this team, Corey.
606
00:45:49,217 --> 00:45:52,311
how 'bout you, Reed?
Give me a good reason.
607
00:45:52,420 --> 00:45:55,184
What do you think, William?
608
00:45:55,290 --> 00:45:57,724
I mean, how many of these people
work hard?
609
00:45:57,825 --> 00:46:00,123
- Not too many.
- Not too many.
610
00:46:00,228 --> 00:46:03,664
Wanna stay home
when the state tournament comes?
611
00:46:05,533 --> 00:46:07,433
All right. Go on in.
612
00:46:18,913 --> 00:46:22,747
The next day in practice,
William reinjures his knee.
613
00:46:30,692 --> 00:46:34,628
You, most likely,
have at least torn this cartilage...
614
00:46:34,729 --> 00:46:36,594
the inside cartilage of your knee.
615
00:46:37,865 --> 00:46:42,131
And you may have
a ligament tear in your knee, okay?
616
00:46:43,504 --> 00:46:46,803
If the ligament is torn, William,
you would miss this year...
617
00:46:46,908 --> 00:46:48,876
entirely.
618
00:46:48,977 --> 00:46:52,913
This is a lot to happen to you
at an early age. A lot.
619
00:46:53,014 --> 00:46:54,948
I think, if all goes well...
620
00:46:55,049 --> 00:46:57,017
you'll be able to come back.
621
00:47:12,066 --> 00:47:14,728
Everything was just going great.
622
00:47:15,770 --> 00:47:17,670
Now this.
623
00:47:23,411 --> 00:47:25,879
All you guys can't get large.
624
00:47:27,215 --> 00:47:29,410
- Somebody accidentally-
- What's up, man?
625
00:47:29,517 --> 00:47:32,782
Somebody gotta wear medium.
You little skinny guys wanna get in a large.
626
00:47:32,887 --> 00:47:34,787
What the other guys gonna put on?
627
00:47:34,889 --> 00:47:37,289
Watch that boy.
he'll steal your drawers.
628
00:47:37,392 --> 00:47:41,522
Junior year, Arthur makes varsity
for the Marshall Commandos.
629
00:47:57,445 --> 00:47:59,913
This is the year, right?
630
00:48:00,014 --> 00:48:02,346
This is it.
All righty.
631
00:48:02,450 --> 00:48:04,645
Not too bad.
632
00:48:04,752 --> 00:48:06,583
Fine.
633
00:48:13,494 --> 00:48:17,123
Back home,
the family's troubles have worsened.
634
00:48:17,231 --> 00:48:19,927
Now I'm on welfare...
635
00:48:20,034 --> 00:48:22,002
that I wasn't on then.
636
00:48:23,037 --> 00:48:27,565
And trying to live month-to-month
on something like that is very hard.
637
00:48:27,675 --> 00:48:30,405
You have three growing kids
that need this...
638
00:48:30,511 --> 00:48:32,741
and you have bills to pay...
639
00:48:32,847 --> 00:48:36,305
and it's just not enough
to make ends meet.
640
00:48:39,854 --> 00:48:44,154
Man.! Sweetie, is Man in there?
641
00:48:44,258 --> 00:48:47,022
I was never raised on welfare.
642
00:48:47,128 --> 00:48:50,427
My mother and father both worked.
643
00:48:53,868 --> 00:48:56,837
We was cut off for three months.
644
00:48:56,938 --> 00:48:59,463
We was cut off aid complete
with no income.
645
00:48:59,574 --> 00:49:01,701
So, therefore,
do you know what happened?
646
00:49:01,809 --> 00:49:04,243
Our lights were cut off.
Our gas was cut off.
647
00:49:04,345 --> 00:49:06,540
And we were sittin' in the dark.
648
00:49:16,224 --> 00:49:19,990
They had cut me offbecause
I failed to meet an appointment.
649
00:49:28,302 --> 00:49:31,635
It hurt everybody.
It changed everybody's attitude.
650
00:49:31,739 --> 00:49:35,300
That you can have something today
and it's gone tomorrow.
651
00:49:37,512 --> 00:49:40,606
So you know what the system
is saying to me?
652
00:49:40,715 --> 00:49:44,776
Do you know what it's saying
to a lot of womens in my predicament?
653
00:49:44,886 --> 00:49:46,877
They don't care.
654
00:50:16,584 --> 00:50:20,042
The good news is
that your ligament looks fine.
655
00:50:20,154 --> 00:50:22,714
- Good.
- Okay? Your ligament looks fine.
656
00:50:22,824 --> 00:50:25,452
We can actually
sew the cartilage back.
657
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:30,293
So you're looking at a minimum
of 12 weeks, maybe 16 weeks...
658
00:50:30,398 --> 00:50:33,128
before I'll let you play ball again.
659
00:50:33,234 --> 00:50:36,362
Possibly being able to play
by tournament time.
660
00:50:36,470 --> 00:50:38,370
Okay?
661
00:50:45,346 --> 00:50:48,338
I'm gonna slip you a little something
into the I.V...
662
00:50:48,449 --> 00:50:51,145
to kind of take the edge
off of things, okay?
663
00:50:51,252 --> 00:50:53,186
All right?
664
00:50:53,287 --> 00:50:55,517
- I can tell.
- Yeah.
665
00:50:55,623 --> 00:50:57,523
No doubt.
666
00:51:14,075 --> 00:51:17,010
- Let's turn him.
- Yeah, this way.
667
00:51:18,045 --> 00:51:20,275
If it stays there.
668
00:51:20,381 --> 00:51:23,908
Probably go with the right post here
and little stuff.
669
00:51:28,689 --> 00:51:32,318
The doctor told me he wasn't gonna
even try to get him ready to play this year.
670
00:51:32,426 --> 00:51:35,884
So what do you think
that gon' do to his career?
671
00:51:45,706 --> 00:51:48,174
I really thought Curtis
was gonna make it.
672
00:51:50,211 --> 00:51:53,009
But he didn't make it,
so I just wanted to try-
673
00:51:53,114 --> 00:51:55,582
I just wanted this one to make it.
674
00:51:59,086 --> 00:52:01,714
We were able to repair the cartilage.
675
00:52:01,822 --> 00:52:03,722
Okay?
676
00:52:12,066 --> 00:52:15,695
When basketball is over,
William may not have a friend in the world.
677
00:52:17,138 --> 00:52:19,868
Curtis lost his job as a security guard...
678
00:52:19,974 --> 00:52:23,000
and has been unemployed
for over four months.
679
00:52:23,110 --> 00:52:25,977
Sometimes I sit around
and my eyes just kinda get watery...
680
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,947
'cause I be, like,
I ain't amounted to nothing.
681
00:52:29,050 --> 00:52:31,314
You know, I ain't got nothing.
682
00:52:31,419 --> 00:52:36,755
I can't even go out there and get a job
making seven dollars an hour.
683
00:52:37,925 --> 00:52:41,383
I'll be sitting there telling myself,
"You ain't gonna get no better. '"
684
00:52:48,836 --> 00:52:51,464
What did y'all tell me about
after y'all go to college and everything...
685
00:52:51,572 --> 00:52:53,472
y'all get your own place?
686
00:52:53,574 --> 00:52:56,065
We can all go to Arby's, baby.!
687
00:52:56,177 --> 00:52:59,203
- And get fresh Matt's Cookies.
- And going toJewel's for our meat.
688
00:52:59,313 --> 00:53:03,682
- That's a lot of food stamps.
- We ain't gonna need no food stamps.
689
00:53:05,252 --> 00:53:07,948
Each day is a struggle.
690
00:53:08,055 --> 00:53:10,649
Trying to deal with the kids'attitudes
as well as my own...
691
00:53:10,758 --> 00:53:13,659
and trying to be strong enough
for them and myself.
692
00:53:13,761 --> 00:53:16,025
- That is so neat.
- I forgot to turn in my work.
693
00:53:16,130 --> 00:53:18,690
That is what you call a neat paper.
Yeah, that's neat.
694
00:53:18,799 --> 00:53:21,597
Don't you say that about my son.
695
00:53:21,702 --> 00:53:23,829
My son got a brain.
Now, you cut that out.
696
00:53:23,938 --> 00:53:26,065
- But he don't use it.
- See that brain there?
697
00:53:26,173 --> 00:53:28,835
Now there are two
new members of the Agee household.
698
00:53:28,943 --> 00:53:33,403
Arthur's sister Tomika
has a baby girl named Jazz.
699
00:53:33,514 --> 00:53:36,972
And Arthur's best friend Shannon moved in
to escape his own troubled home.
700
00:53:38,152 --> 00:53:40,211
Shannon is like me.
701
00:53:40,321 --> 00:53:42,789
he understood me,
and I understood him.
702
00:53:44,759 --> 00:53:47,227
he could sit back and talk to me
'cause I was his best friend.
703
00:53:47,328 --> 00:53:49,228
he trusted me, and I trust him.
704
00:53:51,632 --> 00:53:55,591
It's been crazy, as far as his father
and his mother's breakup.
705
00:53:55,703 --> 00:54:00,640
he'll come home,
and Bo stealing and buying drugs...
706
00:54:00,741 --> 00:54:03,175
and beat on his mother and stuff.
707
00:54:05,746 --> 00:54:08,772
You have to call the police
or get an order of protection...
708
00:54:08,883 --> 00:54:10,851
for him to leave me alone.
709
00:54:29,937 --> 00:54:33,100
My father was the same way.
710
00:54:33,207 --> 00:54:36,335
I think about it all the time,
when you come home, and they fightin'.
711
00:54:36,444 --> 00:54:39,470
You know, that gets to a child's head.
712
00:54:39,580 --> 00:54:42,481
They can't - Especially when you're
living with your mother...
713
00:54:42,583 --> 00:54:46,019
and you young,
and that's all you see all the time.
714
00:54:48,022 --> 00:54:50,786
he had to do something
to keep his spirit up.
715
00:54:56,864 --> 00:54:58,832
Ahh!
716
00:55:05,306 --> 00:55:07,206
Why you -
717
00:55:10,611 --> 00:55:15,048
Starting at guard,
number 11, a junior, Arthur Agee.!
718
00:55:15,149 --> 00:55:17,709
When I played basketball,
I knew what I wanted to do.
719
00:55:18,752 --> 00:55:20,720
This is what I want,you know.
720
00:55:20,821 --> 00:55:23,790
This is what I wanna do
for the rest of my life.
721
00:55:28,629 --> 00:55:30,494
Come on, win it, boy!
722
00:55:34,969 --> 00:55:36,869
Get that ball.!
723
00:55:38,839 --> 00:55:41,706
he's way behind
where I think he should be at this point.
724
00:55:41,809 --> 00:55:44,073
I've had a few guys come
to me from college -
725
00:55:44,178 --> 00:55:46,703
"Ooh, I like that kid.
he's quick, he's fast. "
726
00:55:46,814 --> 00:55:49,146
But something's missing with Art.
727
00:55:56,957 --> 00:55:58,925
Shannon was on the basketball team too.
728
00:55:59,026 --> 00:56:02,792
he was a little more raw
than Arthur is.
729
00:56:02,897 --> 00:56:04,865
I couldn't handle two guys like that...
730
00:56:04,965 --> 00:56:08,332
so I tried the lesser of the evils.
731
00:56:08,435 --> 00:56:10,335
That was Arthur.
732
00:56:14,875 --> 00:56:17,400
Marshall's won six and lost 14...
733
00:56:17,511 --> 00:56:19,979
their worst record in 20 years.
734
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,412
You just in a hurry to do nothing...
735
00:56:22,516 --> 00:56:25,451
'cause that's exactly
what you're doing - nothing.
736
00:56:31,425 --> 00:56:33,950
After spending
most of the game on the bench...
737
00:56:34,061 --> 00:56:36,621
Arthur gets another chance.
738
00:56:36,730 --> 00:56:39,927
Get that ball.! Work that ball, boy.!
739
00:56:40,034 --> 00:56:43,435
Yes.! That's the way you do it.!
740
00:56:45,339 --> 00:56:47,534
In the final minutes of a close game...
741
00:56:47,641 --> 00:56:50,542
Arthur takes it strong to the hoop.
742
00:56:52,513 --> 00:56:55,641
he's called for charging
and fouls out of the game.
743
00:57:16,403 --> 00:57:19,839
- There's been some bad calls all day.
- Amen!
744
00:57:19,940 --> 00:57:22,807
I'm telling you. Oh!
745
00:57:41,762 --> 00:57:43,889
The daily regimen of rehabilitation...
746
00:57:43,998 --> 00:57:46,330
is not the only change
in William's life.
747
00:57:49,603 --> 00:57:51,503
Say "hey!"
748
00:57:51,605 --> 00:57:53,539
- hey!
- Say "hey!"
749
00:57:58,612 --> 00:58:03,106
I was just basically scared to tell people.
750
00:58:03,217 --> 00:58:05,276
I was feelin'sick,you know...
751
00:58:05,386 --> 00:58:07,286
holding all this stuff
inside of me.
752
00:58:07,388 --> 00:58:09,288
I couldn't let it out.
753
00:58:10,324 --> 00:58:13,782
When I did finally tell Coach,
he was like, "When did this come about?'"
754
00:58:13,894 --> 00:58:14,826
And I said...
755
00:58:14,928 --> 00:58:17,897
"Oh... three, four months ago. "
756
00:58:20,034 --> 00:58:22,059
he was like,
"Three or four months ago?"
757
00:58:23,504 --> 00:58:25,404
I was in the delivery room.
758
00:58:25,506 --> 00:58:27,406
The nurses gave her to her...
759
00:58:27,508 --> 00:58:30,409
and she handed the baby to me,
you know.
760
00:58:30,511 --> 00:58:33,412
And I'll never forget
how hard she was squeezing my hand.
761
00:58:35,516 --> 00:58:38,508
Once we got her home
William offered his help and stuff...
762
00:58:38,619 --> 00:58:42,077
but it was almost like I didn't want it
'cause she was mine.
763
00:58:42,189 --> 00:58:44,384
You know?
Instead of the two of us.
764
00:58:44,491 --> 00:58:49,258
So then, after a while we -
I finally let him keep her.
765
00:58:49,363 --> 00:58:51,490
And he earned his title.
766
00:58:51,598 --> 00:58:54,362
You smell good.
767
00:59:18,859 --> 00:59:21,589
Your numbers look real good.
768
00:59:21,695 --> 00:59:25,495
I think you're two to three weeks away
from being able to practice full.
769
00:59:25,599 --> 00:59:29,160
- You know what I mean?
- Two or three weeks?
770
00:59:29,269 --> 00:59:31,321
I know you wanted to waltz in here today
771
00:59:31,322 --> 00:59:33,899
and I'd tell you to go back
to practice right now...
772
00:59:34,007 --> 00:59:36,840
but I don't want it
to have to tear again.
773
00:59:38,078 --> 00:59:41,878
I felt that this was the year for me.
774
00:59:53,961 --> 00:59:57,556
I know we can make it downstate.
775
00:59:57,664 --> 00:59:59,996
That's just a big dream I done had.
776
01:00:03,670 --> 01:00:06,298
I look up on the scoreboard-
777
01:00:07,408 --> 01:00:10,275
My name is not even on there anymore.
778
01:00:12,446 --> 01:00:15,415
Where do I fit in with this team?
779
01:00:22,756 --> 01:00:25,156
William takes a makeup exam in math...
780
01:00:25,259 --> 01:00:27,454
because he skipped the final.
781
01:00:32,933 --> 01:00:36,198
here's the cutoff point for passing.
782
01:00:37,638 --> 01:00:40,368
And you ended up right there.
783
01:00:40,474 --> 01:00:42,999
So you passed the final - barely.
784
01:00:43,110 --> 01:00:48,070
When I stopped playing ball,
all my grades just sunk.
785
01:00:49,183 --> 01:00:52,584
I understand we, uh -
we got the A.C.T. results.
786
01:00:52,686 --> 01:00:54,586
Yeah.
787
01:00:54,688 --> 01:00:57,919
Not as good as we, uh -
we wanted, huh?
788
01:01:03,797 --> 01:01:07,255
William scores a 15 on his first A.C. T.
789
01:01:07,367 --> 01:01:11,269
he needs to score an 18 to qualify
for an athletic scholarship...
790
01:01:11,371 --> 01:01:13,271
to any four-year university.
791
01:01:13,373 --> 01:01:17,605
I think what we have to do is get you
set up with the Britannica course.
792
01:01:17,711 --> 01:01:21,477
We'll have to talk to Mrs. Wier.
Okay?
793
01:01:22,983 --> 01:01:26,009
Sometimes you have had the right answer
and you changed it to the wrong answer.
794
01:01:26,119 --> 01:01:29,054
Through Patricia Wier,
William's St. Joe's sponsor...
795
01:01:29,156 --> 01:01:32,455
the cost of the six-week class is waived.
796
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:34,390
If you're just outright guessing -
797
01:01:34,495 --> 01:01:35,990
If a monkey took this test
798
01:01:35,991 --> 01:01:38,693
and you trained him to
do just B's and C's...
799
01:01:38,799 --> 01:01:42,929
he probably would get more right
than if he picked A's and D's.
800
01:01:45,339 --> 01:01:47,239
You just don't know the feeling...
801
01:01:47,341 --> 01:01:49,241
not knowing
if you gonna be able to play...
802
01:01:49,343 --> 01:01:51,243
just because of a test.
803
01:01:51,345 --> 01:01:54,316
I mean, as soon as you
don't tighten one screw,
804
01:01:54,317 --> 01:01:55,714
everything falls apart.
805
01:01:57,017 --> 01:01:59,918
- El caballo.
- El caballo.
806
01:02:00,020 --> 01:02:02,250
- La vaca.
- La vaca.
807
01:02:02,356 --> 01:02:06,486
Arthur, �Tienes tu el libro?
�Tienes tu el libro?
808
01:02:06,593 --> 01:02:09,084
Mmm.
809
01:02:11,465 --> 01:02:15,162
- What do I say?
- Okay, how do you say "yes"?
810
01:02:15,269 --> 01:02:17,169
"Yoy. '"
811
01:02:17,271 --> 01:02:19,671
- how do you say "yes" in Spanish?
- S�.
812
01:02:19,773 --> 01:02:23,436
S�. Look up on the board.
813
01:02:25,579 --> 01:02:29,345
he's a pretty smart kid,
but he does just enough to pass.
814
01:02:29,449 --> 01:02:31,349
hey, Shannon!
815
01:02:31,451 --> 01:02:34,352
Most of them
that have come through here...
816
01:02:34,454 --> 01:02:36,354
and had that type of attitude...
817
01:02:36,456 --> 01:02:37,666
usually end up in the streets
818
01:02:37,667 --> 01:02:39,482
talkin'about they used
to play for Marshall...
819
01:02:39,593 --> 01:02:43,029
and if they'd gone to class they could've
gone to any school they wanted to.
820
01:02:43,130 --> 01:02:46,224
This is just somebody
standing on the street corner talking...
821
01:02:46,333 --> 01:02:49,530
trying to find a job, then can't find a job,
that kind of thing.
822
01:02:49,636 --> 01:02:51,604
This is where he's headed, really.
823
01:03:03,317 --> 01:03:05,785
- how's your knee?
- It's pretty good.
824
01:03:05,886 --> 01:03:10,550
Easiest thing right now would be for you
not to play and wait till next year.
825
01:03:10,657 --> 01:03:12,420
What do you wanna do?
826
01:03:12,526 --> 01:03:14,426
- Wait till next year?
- Right.
827
01:03:14,528 --> 01:03:16,587
- No.
- You think you're ready?
828
01:03:18,265 --> 01:03:20,233
My next year is now.
829
01:03:28,408 --> 01:03:32,310
I've seen athletes
who have come back from surgery...
830
01:03:32,412 --> 01:03:35,313
where they worried about the injury.
831
01:03:35,415 --> 01:03:39,215
When this happens,
they may never be the player they were.
832
01:03:47,361 --> 01:03:48,746
William's first start
833
01:03:48,747 --> 01:03:51,457
is the final home game
of the regular season.
834
01:03:59,339 --> 01:04:01,807
William should have shot it.
835
01:04:07,114 --> 01:04:10,550
he gotta do that the whole game.
he only do it when they leadin'.
836
01:04:16,823 --> 01:04:19,917
It was like my injury
was making him look bad.
837
01:04:20,027 --> 01:04:21,927
Run it out.!
838
01:04:22,029 --> 01:04:24,497
I always felt that Curtis...
839
01:04:24,598 --> 01:04:27,066
should not be living his dream
through me.
840
01:04:36,476 --> 01:04:38,850
If he don't do somethin'
out here on this court -
841
01:04:38,851 --> 01:04:40,606
Man, he ain't showed me nothin' yet.
842
01:04:40,714 --> 01:04:43,615
You gotta come out
and start playing hard all the time.
843
01:04:43,717 --> 01:04:45,947
Otherwise
you're just another player.
844
01:04:46,053 --> 01:04:48,954
You follow me?
Just remember the way we talked.
845
01:04:49,056 --> 01:04:50,851
Okay? As long as you're physically able.
846
01:04:50,852 --> 01:04:53,049
If you're not, you
shouldn't be playing at all.
847
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,254
So nervous about the start tonight.
848
01:04:57,431 --> 01:04:59,331
But I'm glad it's over with.
849
01:04:59,433 --> 01:05:01,333
Now I can just...
850
01:05:01,435 --> 01:05:04,097
get onto the floor more better.
851
01:05:09,309 --> 01:05:11,209
Spread the floor to four corners!
852
01:05:11,311 --> 01:05:14,212
St. Joe's has made it to the sectionals.
853
01:05:15,382 --> 01:05:17,816
And in the final minutes...
854
01:05:17,918 --> 01:05:21,615
William goes to the free throw line
with the Chargers leading by six.
855
01:05:33,366 --> 01:05:35,334
Always a clutch free-throw shooter...
856
01:05:37,938 --> 01:05:40,566
he sinks four straight
to help seal the victory.
857
01:05:49,716 --> 01:05:51,741
In the sectional finals...
858
01:05:51,852 --> 01:05:53,945
St. Joe's looks for revenge
against Gordon Tech...
859
01:05:54,054 --> 01:05:56,682
the team that knocked them out
last year.
860
01:05:59,926 --> 01:06:02,360
With his whole family watching...
861
01:06:02,462 --> 01:06:06,262
William seems out of sync
and bothered by his knee.
862
01:06:09,002 --> 01:06:10,902
You are not working hard enough!
863
01:06:11,004 --> 01:06:13,768
You understand me?
They want it harder than you!
864
01:06:13,874 --> 01:06:16,342
At the beginning of the fourth quarter...
865
01:06:16,443 --> 01:06:18,741
St. Joe's leads by a point.
866
01:06:34,928 --> 01:06:36,828
Got any pain with that?
867
01:06:36,930 --> 01:06:38,989
While the doctor examines William's knee...
868
01:06:39,099 --> 01:06:40,862
Gordon Tech surges ahead.
869
01:07:02,556 --> 01:07:05,957
The Chargers steal the ball,
trailing by one.
870
01:07:06,059 --> 01:07:08,050
William calls time-out.
871
01:07:09,996 --> 01:07:13,432
I want it down floor
so we can get it to one of our good jumpers.
872
01:07:14,534 --> 01:07:16,434
With only seconds on the clock...
873
01:07:16,536 --> 01:07:19,004
the Chargers find William
in the corner.
874
01:07:22,776 --> 01:07:25,745
The shot doesn't fall,
but William is fouled.
875
01:07:29,015 --> 01:07:31,381
With six seconds to go...
876
01:07:31,484 --> 01:07:34,385
William steps to the line
with two free throws...
877
01:07:34,487 --> 01:07:36,387
and a chance to win.
878
01:08:37,984 --> 01:08:40,885
he shouldn't have been out there.
he shouldn't have been playing.
879
01:08:40,987 --> 01:08:43,421
- The knee?
- I'm very disappointed.
880
01:08:43,523 --> 01:08:45,957
Y'all get that on tape 18 times.
881
01:08:46,059 --> 01:08:48,960
Disappointed in the system.
he shouldn't have been out there playing.
882
01:08:49,062 --> 01:08:51,963
his knee came out of place
a couple of times, it looked like.
883
01:08:52,065 --> 01:08:54,863
I mean, if winning's that important,
we need to reevaluate the program.
884
01:08:54,968 --> 01:08:59,598
That ain't no excuse. he got out there,
said there wasn't nothin' wrong with him.
885
01:08:59,706 --> 01:09:01,606
That's an excuse.
886
01:09:01,708 --> 01:09:04,677
If he was hurt,
he shouldn't have got out there.
887
01:09:31,271 --> 01:09:33,466
There's two possible problems
you could have.
888
01:09:33,573 --> 01:09:36,406
You might have healed,
say, 80% of that cartilage...
889
01:09:36,509 --> 01:09:38,306
and still have
a small residual tear.
890
01:09:38,411 --> 01:09:40,311
William's brother-in-law, Alvin...
891
01:09:40,413 --> 01:09:43,610
takes him to see Dr. hefferon,
the Chicago Bulls team doctor.
892
01:09:43,717 --> 01:09:46,686
What you need to do is have
your knee arthroscoped again.
893
01:09:49,022 --> 01:09:50,922
- What side we gonna do?
- Right side.
894
01:09:51,024 --> 01:09:52,924
Right.
895
01:09:53,026 --> 01:09:54,650
A lot of people say I shouldn't
896
01:09:54,651 --> 01:09:56,894
have played, shouldn't
have came back at all.
897
01:09:59,599 --> 01:10:02,067
Coach kept sayin'
it's really up to me...
898
01:10:02,168 --> 01:10:05,660
and if you leave it up to me
I'm goin'back out there on the court.
899
01:10:06,706 --> 01:10:11,109
We're gonna remove
this portion of the cartilage here.
900
01:10:11,211 --> 01:10:14,738
he'll have a higher incidence of arthritis
as he gets older than you or I would.
901
01:10:14,848 --> 01:10:19,842
But in terms ofhis basketball career,
he has a good chance of performing fine.
902
01:10:19,953 --> 01:10:21,887
- There's the medial meniscus.
- Wow.
903
01:10:27,827 --> 01:10:31,228
It's the only thing on my mind,
is gettin' downstate...
904
01:10:31,331 --> 01:10:33,390
is makin' it down there.
905
01:10:33,500 --> 01:10:37,163
I want to be able to go all out
the whole year.
906
01:10:37,270 --> 01:10:39,170
No setbacks, no nothin'.
907
01:10:39,272 --> 01:10:42,173
At least Coach won't have to say,
"William, you didn't play hard this game"...
908
01:10:42,275 --> 01:10:46,109
'cause when I step on that floor
I'm gon' be all business, and that's it.
909
01:10:50,884 --> 01:10:52,784
One year after he left...
910
01:10:52,886 --> 01:10:55,787
Arthur's dad Bo rejoins the family.
911
01:10:55,889 --> 01:10:58,483
he spent seven months in jail
for burglary...
912
01:10:58,591 --> 01:11:01,287
and overcame an addiction
to crack cocaine.
913
01:11:01,394 --> 01:11:05,160
Man might fail ya, butJesus never fails.!
914
01:11:05,265 --> 01:11:08,894
Praise God.! Whoo.!
If you haven't tried him, try him.!
915
01:11:09,002 --> 01:11:12,165
Sometimes you look for friends
and they're not there.
916
01:11:12,272 --> 01:11:14,433
- ButJesus is always there.
- Amen.!
917
01:11:14,541 --> 01:11:17,408
- Even in the midnight hour, he's there.
- Amen.
918
01:11:17,510 --> 01:11:19,603
Glory to God.! Whoo.!
919
01:11:19,712 --> 01:11:22,010
- hallelujah!
- hallelujah!
920
01:11:24,117 --> 01:11:26,017
Glory to God.
921
01:11:26,119 --> 01:11:29,611
Lord, we know
you always bless the family.
922
01:11:29,722 --> 01:11:35,160
Glory to God. Even in the beginning, Lord,
you blessed that first family.
923
01:11:35,261 --> 01:11:38,890
Glory to God. We pray right now,
don't let nothin' come between 'em.
924
01:11:39,999 --> 01:11:43,992
Send strength, Lord, glory to God,
wherever there is weakness.
925
01:11:45,038 --> 01:11:46,938
Please, Lord...
926
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:49,133
let the love prevail.
927
01:12:00,353 --> 01:12:02,548
- Yeah.!
- Thank you,Jesus.! Thank you, Lord.!
928
01:12:05,091 --> 01:12:06,991
That's right.
929
01:12:15,435 --> 01:12:17,460
While I was incarcerated...
930
01:12:17,570 --> 01:12:20,471
I just asked God,
"Show me a different way.
931
01:12:20,573 --> 01:12:24,373
Give me a new life. Take the taste of drugs
and evil way of thinkin'away from me. '"
932
01:12:24,477 --> 01:12:27,378
I asked the Lord
to forgive me for what I did...
933
01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:32,179
the times that I mistreated my wife,
beat her physically,you know.
934
01:12:39,659 --> 01:12:42,560
I just hope this be
a lesson to my children...
935
01:12:42,662 --> 01:12:45,358
to see me turn my life
over to the Lord.
936
01:12:57,343 --> 01:12:59,243
Oh,yeah.!
937
01:13:04,517 --> 01:13:06,417
When I was little...
938
01:13:06,519 --> 01:13:08,487
he had let me down.
939
01:13:10,456 --> 01:13:15,120
People used to come up to me -
"Your father a drug addict" and stuff.
940
01:13:15,228 --> 01:13:17,492
And I'd just be, like, "Yeah, okay. "
941
01:13:17,597 --> 01:13:19,064
You know?
942
01:13:20,333 --> 01:13:23,234
And I used to take so much,
you know...
943
01:13:23,336 --> 01:13:26,169
that he has to start realizin'
that, you know -
944
01:13:26,272 --> 01:13:28,706
that what is he doing, you know.
945
01:13:30,143 --> 01:13:31,351
'Cause I remember sometimes
946
01:13:31,352 --> 01:13:33,544
he used to try to go to
church while he still -
947
01:13:33,646 --> 01:13:36,672
he was still on drugs
while he was tryin' to go to church.
948
01:13:37,717 --> 01:13:39,617
Give me a hug before you go.
949
01:13:39,719 --> 01:13:41,619
- Give your granddad a hug.
- Thank you!
950
01:13:41,721 --> 01:13:45,657
The closeness was not there at first,
when I come back home.
951
01:13:45,758 --> 01:13:49,387
And then Arthur,
he was watchin'me-
952
01:13:49,495 --> 01:13:51,395
What move would I make now?
953
01:13:51,497 --> 01:13:53,397
Am I just...
954
01:13:53,499 --> 01:13:56,229
bein' like this
since I just come back...
955
01:13:56,336 --> 01:13:59,430
or am I gonna break bad again?
956
01:14:14,420 --> 01:14:18,288
William's dad invites him
down to his auto repair shop.
957
01:14:18,391 --> 01:14:22,623
he hasn't lived with the family
since William was a baby.
958
01:14:22,729 --> 01:14:25,755
The car that I was gonna give you,
uh, I didn't finish it up yet.
959
01:14:25,865 --> 01:14:28,299
I got some more to do to it yet.
960
01:14:28,401 --> 01:14:30,961
I didn't see him for, like, three years.
961
01:14:31,070 --> 01:14:33,470
It never popped in my mind.
962
01:14:33,573 --> 01:14:36,701
- The car back there?
- No, that's the car right over there.
963
01:14:36,809 --> 01:14:38,777
That black Cutlass right there.
964
01:14:39,879 --> 01:14:41,779
I think he's, like...
965
01:14:41,881 --> 01:14:44,679
"Oh, he really must be able
to play some basketball. '"
966
01:14:44,784 --> 01:14:47,685
I think now he sees
somethin'at the end for himself.
967
01:14:51,858 --> 01:14:56,192
I remember one time he tried to whup me,
but I wouldn't let him.
968
01:14:56,296 --> 01:15:01,199
I said, "You may be my dad biologically,
but as far as being there-
969
01:15:01,301 --> 01:15:03,269
Enough. '"
970
01:15:05,138 --> 01:15:08,198
You say you'd like to come
to my next show that I do?
971
01:15:08,308 --> 01:15:10,333
Yeah, come out and...
972
01:15:10,443 --> 01:15:12,934
finally get a chance
to see you sing and -
973
01:15:13,046 --> 01:15:16,277
Okay. What I'll have to do -
I don't have my schedules right this minute.
974
01:15:16,382 --> 01:15:19,510
But I'll have to get that,
and I'll let you know.
975
01:15:29,562 --> 01:15:31,655
Alicia, you're my only friend.
976
01:15:32,699 --> 01:15:34,599
"A'wight? Jimmi-fi. "
977
01:15:34,701 --> 01:15:36,362
Thank you.
978
01:15:37,537 --> 01:15:41,940
I always knew that I was
gonna be a better dad than he was.
979
01:15:42,041 --> 01:15:45,101
I wouldn'tjust leave her like that.
980
01:15:45,211 --> 01:15:47,406
- Alicia?
- hmm? Yes, Mama?
981
01:15:47,513 --> 01:15:50,641
If Alicia has a problem,
then I have a problem.
982
01:15:53,252 --> 01:15:55,447
She's believing whatever she said.
983
01:16:07,734 --> 01:16:09,793
William's second rehabilitation...
984
01:16:09,902 --> 01:16:11,597
is at the Baxter Clinic...
985
01:16:11,704 --> 01:16:15,105
used by many
of Chicago's pro athletes.
986
01:16:16,275 --> 01:16:18,460
Both of William's operations and rehabs
987
01:16:18,461 --> 01:16:20,905
have been paid for by
the school's insurance.
988
01:16:25,918 --> 01:16:28,910
Don't expect to be playing in a game
the first day back.
989
01:16:29,021 --> 01:16:31,854
My mother put a big restriction
on those pickups.
990
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,758
She said, "These are her knees now. "
991
01:16:37,897 --> 01:16:40,695
When you're out on a date,
do you have to have sex?
992
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:43,166
- No! No! No!
- Yes, you do!
993
01:16:43,269 --> 01:16:46,602
No,you don't!
994
01:16:46,706 --> 01:16:50,301
What about the woman's perspective?
995
01:16:51,411 --> 01:16:54,312
All right, quiet down a minute here.!
996
01:16:54,414 --> 01:16:58,111
For the second straight year,
Arthur and Shannon must take summer school.
997
01:16:58,217 --> 01:17:01,118
- Restate your question.
- What'd I say?
998
01:17:01,220 --> 01:17:03,245
Shut up!
999
01:17:03,356 --> 01:17:06,416
This class
is for freshmen, sophomores andjuniors...
1000
01:17:06,526 --> 01:17:09,495
who have failed English.
1001
01:17:09,595 --> 01:17:11,495
The basic problem here...
1002
01:17:11,597 --> 01:17:13,497
is that we were strapped for money...
1003
01:17:13,599 --> 01:17:17,933
and we only had one English class
available to our students.
1004
01:17:18,037 --> 01:17:21,234
hopefully you could touch a nerve
in some of them...
1005
01:17:21,340 --> 01:17:25,640
like a spirited discussion
on a controversial topic.
1006
01:17:25,745 --> 01:17:28,270
Because exactly what is having sex...
1007
01:17:28,381 --> 01:17:32,715
but engaging in an act
that doesn't fulfill -
1008
01:17:32,819 --> 01:17:35,720
Shannon really didn't care...
1009
01:17:35,822 --> 01:17:37,722
so hejust stopped coming...
1010
01:17:37,824 --> 01:17:40,554
and he was dropped
from the roll.
1011
01:17:40,660 --> 01:17:43,322
Usually in an illicit-
1012
01:17:44,597 --> 01:17:46,997
Even if Arthur passes summer school...
1013
01:17:47,099 --> 01:17:50,000
he may not graduate
with his class next year...
1014
01:17:50,102 --> 01:17:53,629
because St. Joseph's is refusing
to release his transcripts.
1015
01:17:53,739 --> 01:17:55,639
I called up the school.
1016
01:17:55,741 --> 01:17:59,199
The lady explained to me
that he owed $1,800...
1017
01:17:59,312 --> 01:18:02,907
so I felt, well, they have
a school policy there...
1018
01:18:03,015 --> 01:18:06,610
and there's, uh, nothing
I can do about that.
1019
01:18:18,764 --> 01:18:21,198
About how much can you afford?
1020
01:18:21,300 --> 01:18:23,791
Okay, we're looking at 18-
1021
01:18:23,903 --> 01:18:26,804
- 13. 10.
- Oh.
1022
01:18:26,906 --> 01:18:28,806
13.10?
1023
01:18:28,908 --> 01:18:30,933
1,813. 10.
1024
01:18:31,978 --> 01:18:34,572
Well, to total that out...
1025
01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:37,240
and from here to -
1026
01:18:37,350 --> 01:18:39,750
June -When is graduation?
1027
01:18:39,852 --> 01:18:42,821
We're looking at somewhere around-
1028
01:18:44,090 --> 01:18:46,820
It's 181.30 per month.
1029
01:18:46,926 --> 01:18:50,828
Is there any way possible that his-
I don't know. I'm just asking.
1030
01:18:50,930 --> 01:18:54,422
- Sure.
- Could his credits be released too?
1031
01:18:54,534 --> 01:18:59,028
I will get a promissory agreement
drawn up. Okay?
1032
01:18:59,138 --> 01:19:01,834
As long as you show me good faith
after the first two months...
1033
01:19:01,941 --> 01:19:04,307
I'll release 'em, uh -
1034
01:19:04,410 --> 01:19:06,310
That would be end of September.
1035
01:19:06,412 --> 01:19:08,312
- Yes, sir.
- Okay.
1036
01:19:08,414 --> 01:19:11,315
- Then I'll send 'em to Marshall.
- Okay. That would be fine with us.
1037
01:19:11,417 --> 01:19:13,783
- I really appreciate this.
- how's Arthur doing, anyway?
1038
01:19:13,886 --> 01:19:16,753
Pretty good.
I can't really complain about him.
1039
01:19:16,856 --> 01:19:19,586
- Good.
- Wish he could've stayed here, though.
1040
01:19:19,692 --> 01:19:21,592
- Yeah. Me too.
- Well, things-
1041
01:19:21,694 --> 01:19:24,925
- Things happen, you know, and -
- Things happen,you know, and-
1042
01:19:25,031 --> 01:19:26,931
- hey-
- That's part oflife.
1043
01:19:27,033 --> 01:19:29,934
- I can't let him down no more.
- Good.
1044
01:19:30,036 --> 01:19:34,370
Okay, good.
I hope we can work something out then.
1045
01:19:34,473 --> 01:19:36,464
- I'd like to thank you.
- No problem.
1046
01:19:36,576 --> 01:19:38,376
- That's why we're here.
We try to help people.
1047
01:19:38,377 --> 01:19:38,976
- That's right.
1048
01:19:39,078 --> 01:19:40,978
- Okay? Very good.
- All right. Thank you very much.
1049
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:43,048
- have a nice day.
- Take care now.
1050
01:19:43,149 --> 01:19:45,549
Okay. Very good.
1051
01:19:45,651 --> 01:19:47,516
- Okay.
- Okay.
1052
01:19:47,620 --> 01:19:49,554
- That's what I need.
- Yeah.
1053
01:19:52,625 --> 01:19:57,392
I think about it- had I not been
on drugs when Arthur went to St. Joseph's...
1054
01:19:57,496 --> 01:20:00,397
just how good
it would have been for him.
1055
01:20:00,499 --> 01:20:02,626
he wouldn't have had to leave.
1056
01:20:04,203 --> 01:20:06,487
here's one of the corners right here
1057
01:20:06,488 --> 01:20:09,470
where I used to come
up and cop all the time.
1058
01:20:12,678 --> 01:20:15,647
Threw away a lot of money
on these corners, boy.
1059
01:20:18,484 --> 01:20:21,453
I almost threw my life
right along with it.
1060
01:20:24,423 --> 01:20:26,323
he can just look at my life...
1061
01:20:26,425 --> 01:20:29,883
and say here's a good example
of what not to do.
1062
01:20:31,597 --> 01:20:33,497
If he had my ways...
1063
01:20:33,599 --> 01:20:37,194
I would be shakin' in my shoes
right now.
1064
01:20:46,912 --> 01:20:49,506
hey, look at that Georgetown coat.
Man, I might get that.
1065
01:20:49,615 --> 01:20:51,981
- Dang!
- Pocket on the side.
1066
01:20:52,084 --> 01:20:54,314
That's the one I was tellin' you about.
1067
01:20:56,288 --> 01:20:57,983
how much?
1068
01:20:59,025 --> 01:21:01,687
Seventy bucks even, no tax.
1069
01:21:04,530 --> 01:21:06,930
Some of the drug pushers
in the neighborhood...
1070
01:21:07,033 --> 01:21:10,992
they'll give us money, tell us,
"Go shoppin; Go get you somethin; '"
1071
01:21:11,103 --> 01:21:15,005
They're thinkin; we playin'basketball
and they can give us stuff...
1072
01:21:15,107 --> 01:21:17,439
and keep our career goin;
1073
01:21:17,543 --> 01:21:20,671
So that's how we were to
keep up with the styles.
1074
01:21:22,214 --> 01:21:24,876
A'ight.
1075
01:21:41,467 --> 01:21:43,867
While you're sitting here today...
1076
01:21:43,969 --> 01:21:46,267
you should feel like a million dollars.
1077
01:21:46,372 --> 01:21:48,670
You should feel so special.
1078
01:21:48,774 --> 01:21:52,232
You are one of a hundred
of the best high school players...
1079
01:21:52,344 --> 01:21:55,074
in this country,
the United States.
1080
01:21:55,181 --> 01:21:58,082
My mother, God bless her,
she's in heaven today.
1081
01:21:58,184 --> 01:22:00,444
She used to always say
to me, "This is America.
1082
01:22:00,445 --> 01:22:02,280
You can make something of your life. "
1083
01:22:05,391 --> 01:22:07,018
Come on! Come on!
1084
01:22:07,126 --> 01:22:10,425
Okay.
1085
01:22:10,529 --> 01:22:14,761
All the coaches from over here.
To the stands, please, coaches!
1086
01:22:14,867 --> 01:22:16,767
Coaches, we gotta clear!
1087
01:22:16,869 --> 01:22:19,997
If you a player, somebody up there
gonna recognize that you a player.
1088
01:22:20,106 --> 01:22:23,041
So there's 250 of us here.
1089
01:22:23,142 --> 01:22:24,840
We're doing it to try to find out who
1090
01:22:24,841 --> 01:22:27,135
the best players are and
get 'em in our program.
1091
01:22:27,246 --> 01:22:30,147
There aren't very many kids at any level,
including the NBA...
1092
01:22:30,249 --> 01:22:33,013
that really understand
what basketball is all about.
1093
01:22:33,119 --> 01:22:34,791
We always say, you're
going to war, would you
1094
01:22:34,792 --> 01:22:36,282
want him behind you covering your flank?
1095
01:22:36,388 --> 01:22:39,289
If you're pouting,
they're gonna also recognize that.
1096
01:22:39,391 --> 01:22:40,134
And don't tell me
1097
01:22:40,135 --> 01:22:42,189
they're not gonna write
it down in that book.
1098
01:22:42,294 --> 01:22:44,194
At the prestigious Nike camp...
1099
01:22:44,296 --> 01:22:46,856
William hopes to prove
the injuries are behind him...
1100
01:22:46,966 --> 01:22:49,628
and he belongs
among the nation's best.
1101
01:22:59,845 --> 01:23:01,870
One, two, three.
1102
01:23:01,981 --> 01:23:03,539
Next.!
1103
01:23:03,649 --> 01:23:08,109
One, two, three, four.!
1104
01:23:14,260 --> 01:23:18,060
Arthur and Shannon spend their summer
at Pizza hut earning 3.35 an hour.
1105
01:23:26,672 --> 01:23:28,572
Yeah.
1106
01:23:28,674 --> 01:23:31,734
- hello. how are you all doing today?
- Fine.
1107
01:23:47,693 --> 01:23:50,787
It's a waste of my time down here.
I'm ready to go home.
1108
01:23:52,231 --> 01:23:55,496
here I am, always tryin'
to play this team ball.
1109
01:23:57,102 --> 01:23:59,502
A few coaches - more coaches
comin' around to look...
1110
01:23:59,605 --> 01:24:03,905
everybody feel they gotta do
they own little thing here.
1111
01:24:04,009 --> 01:24:06,477
Move it.! Move it.!
1112
01:24:06,579 --> 01:24:08,479
Stick in the post.!
1113
01:24:08,581 --> 01:24:11,550
Some of you are gonna make it
where you want to be...
1114
01:24:11,650 --> 01:24:13,777
and others of you will not make it.
1115
01:24:13,886 --> 01:24:17,913
This is summer for them.
They don't wanna be sitting in a classroom.
1116
01:24:18,023 --> 01:24:19,923
But we provide them with an experience...
1117
01:24:20,025 --> 01:24:22,118
you can't get anywhere else...
1118
01:24:22,228 --> 01:24:24,594
in that we simulate what it's going
to be like to be a student athlete.
1119
01:24:24,697 --> 01:24:27,598
Fifteen hours a week for basketball.
how many hours do we have up here?
1120
01:24:27,700 --> 01:24:30,034
The statistics on Division I players
1121
01:24:30,035 --> 01:24:32,967
graduating from college
are really frightening.
1122
01:24:33,072 --> 01:24:36,269
Let's assume you're playing
big-time college basketball...
1123
01:24:36,375 --> 01:24:39,105
and your team travels-
1124
01:24:39,211 --> 01:24:41,611
You have to realize...
1125
01:24:41,714 --> 01:24:44,046
that nobody cares about you.
1126
01:24:44,149 --> 01:24:47,243
You're black,
you're a young male.
1127
01:24:47,353 --> 01:24:50,789
All you're supposed to do
is deal drugs and mug women.
1128
01:24:51,824 --> 01:24:54,952
The only reason why you're here-
1129
01:24:56,061 --> 01:24:57,961
you can make their team win.
1130
01:24:58,063 --> 01:25:00,122
If their team wins...
1131
01:25:00,232 --> 01:25:02,325
these schools get a lot of money.
1132
01:25:02,434 --> 01:25:05,403
This whole thing
is revolving around money.
1133
01:25:11,343 --> 01:25:15,177
Recruiting is like
any other sales business.
1134
01:25:15,281 --> 01:25:17,181
We've gotta win to keep our jobs.
1135
01:25:17,283 --> 01:25:19,183
We've gotta fill the arena
to keep our jobs.
1136
01:25:19,285 --> 01:25:21,185
And if we don't, they fire us.
1137
01:25:21,287 --> 01:25:24,313
I mean, that's - hey, if bankers
don't make money, they fire them.
1138
01:25:24,423 --> 01:25:28,951
When you look at some of these young boys'
bodies, they got NBA bodies already.
1139
01:25:31,563 --> 01:25:34,464
There's one particular kid
who's here now...
1140
01:25:34,566 --> 01:25:37,399
I've watched him since sixth grade;
I've watched him blossom.
1141
01:25:37,503 --> 01:25:40,404
That's when you wanna get on 'em -
when they're young -
1142
01:25:40,506 --> 01:25:42,736
and start writin' 'em
before everybody else writes 'em.
1143
01:25:42,841 --> 01:25:46,242
Try to get any edge you can
in this business.
1144
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:49,980
It's already become a meat market.
1145
01:25:50,082 --> 01:25:53,142
But I try to - to, uh, do my job...
1146
01:25:53,252 --> 01:25:56,710
you know, and serve professional me.
1147
01:26:02,628 --> 01:26:06,120
What schools do you think
are most involved with William right now?
1148
01:26:06,231 --> 01:26:08,222
I would say DePaul...
1149
01:26:08,334 --> 01:26:11,667
Marquette, Indiana, Michigan.
1150
01:26:12,771 --> 01:26:15,831
Excellent.
1151
01:26:15,941 --> 01:26:18,102
Great job! Way to go!
1152
01:26:18,210 --> 01:26:21,475
Bob Gibbons done seen me
play my best game out here.
1153
01:26:21,580 --> 01:26:24,947
Turned in 16 points, 12 assists.
1154
01:26:25,050 --> 01:26:27,348
Bob Gibbons over there like this -
"hmm. "
1155
01:26:29,455 --> 01:26:31,946
Yeah, I was smilin' too, Bob.
1156
01:26:34,393 --> 01:26:36,486
Give me a slice of the crust.
1157
01:26:38,430 --> 01:26:40,330
Probably will.
1158
01:26:40,432 --> 01:26:42,662
Thanks a lot.
1159
01:26:45,037 --> 01:26:46,698
Look.
1160
01:26:46,805 --> 01:26:48,432
hey, Mom.
1161
01:26:51,677 --> 01:26:54,237
Right now I'm feelin'good about myself.
1162
01:26:58,684 --> 01:27:03,053
I really feel like, since I been down here,
that I was all-American.
1163
01:27:05,190 --> 01:27:08,353
When I go back home
I'm gonna feel unstoppable.
1164
01:27:10,029 --> 01:27:13,988
This one eyebrows up.
This one eyebrows up.
1165
01:27:15,267 --> 01:27:17,167
Swing it!
1166
01:27:17,269 --> 01:27:19,237
Whoo-hoo!
1167
01:27:32,951 --> 01:27:36,352
I'm gonna pull up on it, okay?
Tell me if it hurts more.
1168
01:27:36,455 --> 01:27:39,424
- Yeah.
- It hurts more when I do that?
1169
01:27:47,499 --> 01:27:49,467
Easy does it, now.
1170
01:27:53,906 --> 01:27:57,342
It's on the muscle.
It's not on the joint. It's above the joint.
1171
01:27:57,443 --> 01:27:59,172
Okay?
1172
01:28:03,749 --> 01:28:05,842
What's your name?
1173
01:28:05,951 --> 01:28:07,851
Though it's only a muscle injury...
1174
01:28:07,953 --> 01:28:10,884
it's severe enough that
William will not compete
1175
01:28:10,885 --> 01:28:12,913
for the final two days of the camp.
1176
01:28:35,714 --> 01:28:37,944
how many electives
you need to graduate?
1177
01:28:38,050 --> 01:28:39,950
- Six.
- Six?
1178
01:28:40,052 --> 01:28:42,384
Arthur's transcript
from St. Joseph's has arrived.
1179
01:28:42,488 --> 01:28:45,787
If you pass all of the classes
that you're presently taking...
1180
01:28:45,891 --> 01:28:48,223
you can graduate
from summer school.
1181
01:28:48,327 --> 01:28:50,557
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
1182
01:28:50,662 --> 01:28:52,960
- have you taken the A.C.T.?
- Mm-mmm.
1183
01:28:53,065 --> 01:28:54,965
When do you plan to take it?
1184
01:28:55,067 --> 01:28:56,967
Sometime soon.
1185
01:28:57,069 --> 01:28:59,483
What institution are
you planning on going to?
1186
01:28:59,484 --> 01:29:00,664
have you decided that?
1187
01:29:00,772 --> 01:29:05,175
I was, um, thinking about,
going to, um... Alabama.
1188
01:29:05,277 --> 01:29:08,337
But you need to take
Algebra-Trig. Okay?
1189
01:29:09,414 --> 01:29:11,314
Do you plan to take that?
1190
01:29:11,416 --> 01:29:13,714
I don't know.
1191
01:29:13,819 --> 01:29:15,787
You don't know?
1192
01:29:17,489 --> 01:29:20,390
So you just barely gettin'by again.
1193
01:29:22,494 --> 01:29:24,587
No. You ain't gotta say that.
1194
01:29:24,696 --> 01:29:27,221
But you are.
You've been barely gettin'by all along.
1195
01:29:27,332 --> 01:29:30,233
Now, you gonna have to do better than that
if you wanna go to Alabama...
1196
01:29:30,335 --> 01:29:32,735
or any other school.
1197
01:29:32,838 --> 01:29:35,966
You gonna have to do more
than just get by.
1198
01:29:37,209 --> 01:29:39,677
Don't forget to bring
those papers back to me.
1199
01:29:39,778 --> 01:29:41,678
- Okay.
- All right.
1200
01:29:43,749 --> 01:29:47,082
St. Joe's just messed everything up.
Shouldn't have even went there.
1201
01:29:48,654 --> 01:29:50,554
Thought I had more credits than this.
1202
01:29:50,656 --> 01:29:53,989
They gon' kick me out
'cause I ain't payin' 'em money. Man!
1203
01:29:56,695 --> 01:29:59,664
That's all right, though.
I'm gonna still make it.
1204
01:30:04,570 --> 01:30:07,801
"Don't let your best
opportunity get away from you.
1205
01:30:07,906 --> 01:30:12,070
"You can have a great experience
at Marquette University.
1206
01:30:12,177 --> 01:30:14,077
"Once you visit our campus...
1207
01:30:14,179 --> 01:30:18,843
"I feel confident that you will know
that Marquette is the right place for you.
1208
01:30:18,951 --> 01:30:21,442
Sincerely, Kevin O'Neill. "
1209
01:30:25,123 --> 01:30:27,182
I like these.
1210
01:30:27,292 --> 01:30:31,228
I been gettin; like, two a week
from the school for...
1211
01:30:32,431 --> 01:30:34,331
a couple of months.
1212
01:30:34,433 --> 01:30:36,594
So that's quite a few.
1213
01:30:36,702 --> 01:30:40,934
I know you're game,
but, Monica,you seem very overwrought.
1214
01:30:43,108 --> 01:30:45,633
I had Division I offers.
1215
01:30:45,744 --> 01:30:47,373
I had even signed at Marquette
1216
01:30:47,374 --> 01:30:49,840
'cause they thought I
was gonna make the grades.
1217
01:30:52,584 --> 01:30:54,745
The great ballplayers...
1218
01:30:54,853 --> 01:30:57,754
they care about basketball
more than they care about school...
1219
01:30:57,856 --> 01:31:00,188
and I know they do.
1220
01:31:10,369 --> 01:31:12,337
Shaky. Shaky.
1221
01:31:16,208 --> 01:31:19,200
Ohh.!
1222
01:31:19,311 --> 01:31:21,211
Let me try somethin;!
1223
01:31:21,413 --> 01:31:25,144
If you're looking for
a progressive college basketball program...
1224
01:31:25,250 --> 01:31:28,310
with experienced leadership
and a winning tradition...
1225
01:31:28,420 --> 01:31:31,787
then the Marquette Warriors
are for you.
1226
01:31:31,890 --> 01:31:34,791
William's first home recruiting visit.
1227
01:31:34,893 --> 01:31:36,827
Three top schools postpone visits...
1228
01:31:36,928 --> 01:31:39,843
preferring to wait and
see how William will do
1229
01:31:39,844 --> 01:31:41,592
his senior year at St. Joe's.
1230
01:31:42,868 --> 01:31:45,428
If you don't make the test score,
it doesn't mean we don't want you...
1231
01:31:45,537 --> 01:31:47,437
because we still do-
that's what I'm telling you.
1232
01:31:47,539 --> 01:31:49,439
If you tear your knee out
again this year...
1233
01:31:49,541 --> 01:31:51,441
and you can't
play ever again...
1234
01:31:51,543 --> 01:31:53,909
you're gonna have your education
paid for at Marquette University.
1235
01:31:54,012 --> 01:31:56,845
I know that the scholarship
is one-year renewable.
1236
01:31:56,948 --> 01:32:00,975
Gene's right about this, but any school
worth its salt is gonna give you four years.
1237
01:32:01,086 --> 01:32:04,112
The bottom line is this-
we want to win the national title.
1238
01:32:04,222 --> 01:32:06,918
Number two- I wanna make you
the best player I can.
1239
01:32:07,025 --> 01:32:09,926
I wanna give you an opportunity
to, maybe someday...
1240
01:32:10,028 --> 01:32:13,156
be one of those guys that makes
some money in Europe or in the NBA.
1241
01:32:13,265 --> 01:32:16,757
You're one of seven guys
that we're recruiting right now.
1242
01:32:16,868 --> 01:32:19,837
- You're recruiting seven guys?
- Seven guys for three spots.
1243
01:32:21,506 --> 01:32:23,406
Where he fit in?
1244
01:32:23,508 --> 01:32:25,408
- Where does he fit in?
- Yeah.
1245
01:32:25,510 --> 01:32:28,070
As soon as William tells me
he's not looking at any other schools...
1246
01:32:28,180 --> 01:32:30,045
then I'm not looking at
any other players.
1247
01:32:30,148 --> 01:32:32,548
So, what?
The first one sign, that's -
1248
01:32:32,651 --> 01:32:35,848
Well- Well, that's what
it's gonna come down to.
1249
01:32:35,954 --> 01:32:38,855
If I tell you that, hey,
you're our guy and this and that...
1250
01:32:38,957 --> 01:32:41,858
and I lose you to Kansas, Indiana,
North Carolina State or something...
1251
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:43,860
I'm out ofluck.
1252
01:32:43,962 --> 01:32:46,692
The president's saying to me,
"I thought you were recruiting a guard. '"
1253
01:32:46,798 --> 01:32:49,733
It's a tough situation,
but it's something that has to be done.
1254
01:33:10,055 --> 01:33:11,955
It's a great place.
1255
01:33:12,057 --> 01:33:14,048
We're gettin'ready
to have it rockin;
1256
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:18,027
The best is yet to come.
1257
01:33:20,399 --> 01:33:23,391
Lot of serious ballplayers
been through this building-
1258
01:33:23,502 --> 01:33:28,166
Junior Bridgeman, Sidney Moncrief,
Bob Lanier, Oscar Robertson.
1259
01:33:30,108 --> 01:33:34,101
Can you see yourself playing
in this place here, 18,000 in it?
1260
01:33:34,212 --> 01:33:37,409
Big difference from St. Joe's, now.
1261
01:33:41,553 --> 01:33:43,453
We stayed at the hyatt.
1262
01:33:43,555 --> 01:33:46,854
Man, it was nice. Real nice.
1263
01:33:46,958 --> 01:33:50,485
They had these balloons
all hangin' up on the ceiling, everything.
1264
01:33:50,595 --> 01:33:53,223
They-They really did it up.
1265
01:33:53,331 --> 01:33:55,925
And I must say, we did it up too.
1266
01:33:56,034 --> 01:34:01,233
We - Room service.
Man!
1267
01:34:01,339 --> 01:34:04,365
had these phony newspapers written up.
1268
01:34:04,476 --> 01:34:07,604
Notre Dame 77, Marquette 76.
1269
01:34:07,712 --> 01:34:11,808
Gates is out high, calling for the ball.!
There are six seconds left.
1270
01:34:11,917 --> 01:34:15,409
The freshman spins past the defender,
slicing to his left to the foul line.
1271
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:18,250
Three seconds left.
Marquette down by one.
1272
01:34:18,356 --> 01:34:21,154
Gates launches a running one-hander.!
It's on the way.!
1273
01:34:21,259 --> 01:34:24,251
It is good.!
1274
01:34:24,362 --> 01:34:29,356
Gates buries a 13-footer
just ahead of the horn...
1275
01:34:29,468 --> 01:34:33,063
and Marquette
has defeated Notre Dame.!
1276
01:34:33,171 --> 01:34:35,901
If you think we care about you
a lot in recruiting...
1277
01:34:36,007 --> 01:34:38,168
we're gonna do more
when you're here.
1278
01:34:38,276 --> 01:34:40,040
Don't let it get to a
point where somebody else
1279
01:34:40,041 --> 01:34:41,473
comes in and takes a scholarship away.
1280
01:34:42,881 --> 01:34:46,783
Let us know what you wanna do-
unless you know what you wanna do right now.
1281
01:34:46,885 --> 01:34:49,854
he knows, but he won't say.
1282
01:34:56,161 --> 01:34:58,994
You talked to any, uh...
1283
01:34:59,097 --> 01:35:01,998
leading black people on the campus?
1284
01:35:02,100 --> 01:35:04,000
- The leading black people?
- Yeah.
1285
01:35:04,102 --> 01:35:06,002
- Such as?
- Whoever might be in charge...
1286
01:35:06,104 --> 01:35:08,004
of all the black students on campus -
1287
01:35:08,106 --> 01:35:11,007
what kind of community life
they have for the blacks there.
1288
01:35:11,109 --> 01:35:13,009
- Uh -
- Did you talk to anyone about it?
1289
01:35:13,111 --> 01:35:14,735
- Did you ask the players
how they're treated?
1290
01:35:14,736 --> 01:35:15,011
- Yeah.
1291
01:35:15,113 --> 01:35:17,013
- What'd they say?
- Players say they treated fine.
1292
01:35:17,115 --> 01:35:19,345
I mean, they get
the best of everything.
1293
01:35:19,451 --> 01:35:21,351
- You think that's where you wanna go?
- Yeah.
1294
01:35:21,453 --> 01:35:23,216
That's fine.
1295
01:35:23,321 --> 01:35:24,923
Obviously, if you wait you'll have
1296
01:35:24,924 --> 01:35:27,280
all the other schools
that were on you before...
1297
01:35:27,392 --> 01:35:31,385
like Kansas and Indiana
and North Carolina State.
1298
01:35:31,496 --> 01:35:33,726
That's all right, uh, but...
1299
01:35:33,832 --> 01:35:35,732
I discussed it with -
1300
01:35:35,834 --> 01:35:37,802
I think you should take a few days.
1301
01:35:39,070 --> 01:35:41,732
Because you just came back.
You understand?
1302
01:35:43,508 --> 01:35:45,408
- Poop!
- Yeah!
1303
01:35:45,510 --> 01:35:47,705
Yea!
1304
01:35:47,812 --> 01:35:49,712
Boo!
1305
01:35:52,350 --> 01:35:54,409
Is there any cash with this?
1306
01:35:54,519 --> 01:35:56,419
Uh, it's in the mail.
1307
01:35:56,521 --> 01:35:59,319
To four years of excellence.
1308
01:35:59,424 --> 01:36:02,052
- hear! hear!
- hear! hear!
1309
01:36:06,398 --> 01:36:08,764
- It's alcohol-free.
- It's not that bad.
1310
01:36:17,242 --> 01:36:20,905
I am fixing him
a birthday dinner today.
1311
01:36:21,012 --> 01:36:22,912
It's his 18th birthday...
1312
01:36:23,014 --> 01:36:26,745
and I want to show him
how much we appreciate him and love him...
1313
01:36:26,851 --> 01:36:28,819
and care for him.
1314
01:36:30,388 --> 01:36:33,516
Everything that you can imagine
was going wrong with this family...
1315
01:36:33,625 --> 01:36:36,355
but now everybody's together.
1316
01:36:36,461 --> 01:36:38,759
It's his favorite cake.
1317
01:36:38,863 --> 01:36:41,058
he's a great kid.
1318
01:36:41,166 --> 01:36:44,624
And some kids don't live
to get this age, you know.
1319
01:36:44,736 --> 01:36:47,967
That's another thing
to be proud about -
1320
01:36:48,073 --> 01:36:51,201
that, you know,
it's his 18th birthday, he lived...
1321
01:36:51,309 --> 01:36:55,075
and to get to see 18, that's good.
1322
01:36:58,817 --> 01:37:02,378
I wanna tell you that I love you very much.
I'm very proud of you.
1323
01:37:02,487 --> 01:37:06,856
It seems like I was 18 just yesterday.
here. happy birthday. I love you.
1324
01:37:06,958 --> 01:37:08,858
- Ohh.!
- hey-hey.!
1325
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:10,860
- happy birthday!
- I love you too.!
1326
01:37:10,962 --> 01:37:14,227
- Come over here.
- Where you goin', homes?
1327
01:37:14,332 --> 01:37:16,527
Where you goin', homes?
1328
01:37:25,143 --> 01:37:27,043
Blow out the candles.!
1329
01:37:29,147 --> 01:37:31,547
Two months after his 18th birthday...
1330
01:37:31,650 --> 01:37:34,016
Arthur is cut off public aid.
1331
01:37:35,053 --> 01:37:36,953
This is what I brought to their attention.
1332
01:37:37,055 --> 01:37:39,353
he's still a full-time student.
he hasn't graduated yet.
1333
01:37:39,457 --> 01:37:41,857
So why would you-all cut him off?
1334
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:43,860
- I'll bite you!
- I'll bite you back.
1335
01:37:43,962 --> 01:37:45,862
They feel like when they get 18...
1336
01:37:45,964 --> 01:37:48,364
most the black kids
they drop out.
1337
01:37:48,466 --> 01:37:51,924
So that means that the child
is just thrown out there.
1338
01:37:54,105 --> 01:37:58,064
I was gettin' 368.
Now I get 268.
1339
01:38:00,311 --> 01:38:02,404
And that's it.
1340
01:38:02,514 --> 01:38:05,972
And that's to take care of me
from one month to the next.
1341
01:38:08,353 --> 01:38:10,753
Now, can you imagine
a person living on that?
1342
01:38:10,855 --> 01:38:13,824
Do you-all wonder sometime,
how am I livin'?
1343
01:38:15,093 --> 01:38:19,029
Or how do my children survive,
or how they livin'?
1344
01:38:20,298 --> 01:38:25,258
It's enough to make people really wanna go
out there and lash out and hurt somebody.
1345
01:38:27,138 --> 01:38:29,732
A message to the Oreo cookie.
1346
01:38:29,841 --> 01:38:33,538
No matter how much you wanna switch,
here's what they think about you:
1347
01:38:33,645 --> 01:38:38,241
Fried chicken
and biscuit-eatin'monkey, ape, baboon...
1348
01:38:38,349 --> 01:38:41,512
big-thighed, fast-runnin;
high-jumpin; spear-chuckin;..
1349
01:38:41,619 --> 01:38:45,077
360-degree basketball-dunkin;..
1350
01:38:45,190 --> 01:38:47,420
pit-swingin'spade moulanyan.
1351
01:38:47,525 --> 01:38:50,961
Go the fuck back to Africa.
Go the fuck back to Africa.
1352
01:38:51,062 --> 01:38:52,962
Go the fuck back to Africa.
1353
01:38:53,064 --> 01:38:54,964
Think about it. Fuckin'sellout.
1354
01:38:57,001 --> 01:38:59,128
Play the music, motherfucker!
Put the music on!
1355
01:39:09,380 --> 01:39:10,938
Shoot it.
1356
01:39:11,049 --> 01:39:15,145
Rebound.! Go, go, go.!
1357
01:39:19,958 --> 01:39:21,926
Gates stinks.
1358
01:39:22,026 --> 01:39:24,688
You got that? he stinks.
1359
01:39:27,699 --> 01:39:30,930
he doesn't play with confidence,
like he did before he was injured.
1360
01:39:36,407 --> 01:39:39,103
I don't believe the other players
have complete confidence in William.
1361
01:39:40,845 --> 01:39:43,643
They were in awe of William
when he was a sophomore.
1362
01:39:43,748 --> 01:39:46,046
They're not in awe ofhim anymore.
1363
01:40:08,506 --> 01:40:10,406
Sophomore year...
1364
01:40:10,508 --> 01:40:12,703
I was just carefree.
1365
01:40:15,547 --> 01:40:18,380
If it could be done,
I was gonna do it.
1366
01:40:19,417 --> 01:40:22,477
I wish I could
get that attitude back.
1367
01:40:28,593 --> 01:40:30,060
Go.!
1368
01:40:31,462 --> 01:40:33,521
hold up.!
That's crap.!
1369
01:40:33,631 --> 01:40:36,099
That is dog-shit crap.!
1370
01:40:37,135 --> 01:40:39,831
Why did you have to
do something unnecessarily?
1371
01:40:39,938 --> 01:40:44,170
If you would've kept it over here, William -
Look at me!
1372
01:40:44,275 --> 01:40:48,678
If you had kept it over here, wide,
you could have gone all the way.
1373
01:40:48,780 --> 01:40:52,238
What is that crap,
the shovel pass?
1374
01:40:53,685 --> 01:40:56,085
There was never any point in our school...
1375
01:40:56,187 --> 01:41:00,715
where wejust-
just played outright,you know.
1376
01:41:02,727 --> 01:41:06,288
Now, remember, think about the ball game
on the way to the game.
1377
01:41:22,046 --> 01:41:23,775
I'll bet a nickel.
1378
01:41:23,882 --> 01:41:25,679
If I got a nickel.
1379
01:41:25,783 --> 01:41:28,013
Yeah, I got it!
1380
01:41:28,119 --> 01:41:30,019
Marshall began its season well...
1381
01:41:30,121 --> 01:41:32,021
winning four of six.
1382
01:41:32,123 --> 01:41:34,956
Today's game will be their first
against a city power.
1383
01:41:35,994 --> 01:41:39,259
The only way you gonna beat them
is to play good basketball.
1384
01:41:39,364 --> 01:41:41,764
All that bullshit that you be playin' -
1385
01:41:41,866 --> 01:41:45,029
You play half of a game, for two
or three minutes you play pretty good...
1386
01:41:45,136 --> 01:41:47,036
then you go to sleep.
1387
01:41:47,138 --> 01:41:49,606
You have to play a whole ball game.
1388
01:41:55,113 --> 01:41:58,571
When we start out,
Arthur will be completely in the ball game.
1389
01:42:00,852 --> 01:42:04,515
But as the game progresses,
then he digresses.
1390
01:42:17,602 --> 01:42:22,335
By halftime, Marshall trails
highly favored Dunbar by 15 points.
1391
01:42:33,551 --> 01:42:35,451
But late in the fourth quarter...
1392
01:42:35,553 --> 01:42:37,783
Arthur and the Commandos
claw their way back.
1393
01:42:40,358 --> 01:42:42,258
On a crucial possession...
1394
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:44,328
the ball goes to Arthur.
1395
01:42:56,341 --> 01:42:58,309
hey, boy!
Gimme some, boy!
1396
01:43:00,611 --> 01:43:02,238
hey, Arthur G!
1397
01:43:03,648 --> 01:43:07,982
hey, Arthur G! You ever got rich,
they'd catch you for sure! Come here, dog!
1398
01:43:10,088 --> 01:43:11,988
That's it, man.!
Showin'your beef!.
1399
01:43:12,090 --> 01:43:14,786
I want it up high, G.
I want it up high.
1400
01:43:24,902 --> 01:43:27,803
Led by William's 16 points a game...
1401
01:43:27,905 --> 01:43:30,237
the Chargers have a 20 and 3 record.
1402
01:43:30,341 --> 01:43:33,276
But Coach Pingatore feels they're not ready
for the impending play-offs.
1403
01:43:33,378 --> 01:43:36,279
Alabama.! Alabama.!
1404
01:43:36,381 --> 01:43:38,144
Alabama.!
1405
01:43:46,624 --> 01:43:49,286
Well, don't throw the ball!
1406
01:43:49,394 --> 01:43:52,522
Jesus, will you cut it out
and quit acting like a baby!
1407
01:43:52,630 --> 01:43:54,598
Will you quit cryin'!
1408
01:43:55,633 --> 01:43:58,397
This team just drives me crazy.
1409
01:43:59,504 --> 01:44:01,665
It's been a struggle all year.
1410
01:44:02,807 --> 01:44:04,707
You think you're better than you are.
1411
01:44:04,809 --> 01:44:06,936
The two big guys are prima donnas.
1412
01:44:07,045 --> 01:44:09,809
They should be killin'people.
1413
01:44:09,914 --> 01:44:12,815
For you people
that are really agonizing...
1414
01:44:12,917 --> 01:44:16,819
andjust hate all this stuff
and all the hollering...
1415
01:44:16,921 --> 01:44:19,947
if you don't make a turn,
it'll be over next week...
1416
01:44:20,058 --> 01:44:22,026
so you won't have to worry about it.
1417
01:44:22,126 --> 01:44:24,458
That's the point.
1418
01:44:27,231 --> 01:44:30,166
I wanna end this game
in the next three to four minutes.
1419
01:44:30,268 --> 01:44:33,237
Otherwise it's gonna be a ball game.
All right, let's go get 'em. Come on.
1420
01:44:33,337 --> 01:44:35,237
hail Mary, full of grace.
1421
01:44:35,339 --> 01:44:37,239
Blessed art thou -
1422
01:44:37,341 --> 01:44:38,357
holy Mary, Mother of
God, pray for us sinners
1423
01:44:38,358 --> 01:44:39,241
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
1424
01:44:39,343 --> 01:44:41,243
All right, let's go.
Come on.
1425
01:44:42,980 --> 01:44:45,380
William's just too nice of a kid.
1426
01:44:45,483 --> 01:44:47,610
I don't know ifhe has
the killer temperament.
1427
01:44:47,718 --> 01:44:50,186
I don't know ifhe has
the eye of the tiger.
1428
01:44:50,288 --> 01:44:52,813
he's gonna need that
when he goes to the next level.
1429
01:44:52,924 --> 01:44:54,892
Remember, square up!
1430
01:44:57,095 --> 01:44:59,529
It's business, it's big bucks...
1431
01:44:59,630 --> 01:45:01,530
and that's what the scholarship's for.
1432
01:45:01,632 --> 01:45:03,532
Good job.
1433
01:45:23,454 --> 01:45:25,854
- his coach is stingy and selfish.
- My coach is not -
1434
01:45:25,957 --> 01:45:28,357
he just want William
to run out there and play-
1435
01:45:28,459 --> 01:45:30,791
- My coach is not stingy and selfish.
- Yes, he is!
1436
01:45:30,895 --> 01:45:34,296
The day she was gonna be born
I told him he had to be there.
1437
01:45:34,398 --> 01:45:37,299
I don't care what his coach say.
I know the game was important.
1438
01:45:37,401 --> 01:45:42,065
But this was more important,
and his coach doesn't see it like that.
1439
01:45:42,173 --> 01:45:44,073
I just can't miss a game...
1440
01:45:44,175 --> 01:45:47,076
just because, you know,
an incident occur...
1441
01:45:47,178 --> 01:45:49,669
unless it was like a death
or somethin' like that.
1442
01:45:49,780 --> 01:45:53,546
This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Ain't like the girl was born every day.
1443
01:45:53,651 --> 01:45:57,052
That's what I was tryin' to get you to say.
1444
01:45:57,155 --> 01:46:00,215
Especially around that time
of the year too - state tournament.
1445
01:46:00,324 --> 01:46:02,792
It was simply out of the question.
1446
01:46:03,895 --> 01:46:07,023
he tells me,
"Well, it'll benefit us in the future. '"
1447
01:46:07,131 --> 01:46:09,031
I'm, like, "But what about now?"
1448
01:46:09,133 --> 01:46:11,033
he keeps sayin' in the fu -
1449
01:46:11,135 --> 01:46:13,569
Basketball was my ticket
out of the ghetto.
1450
01:46:13,671 --> 01:46:16,572
If I wouldn't have been playin'ball,
I would not even be goin'to college.
1451
01:46:16,674 --> 01:46:19,734
I'm goin' to college, and I have a daughter.
So what's my excuse?
1452
01:46:19,844 --> 01:46:21,971
- Because the situations are much different.
- No, it's not.
1453
01:46:54,378 --> 01:46:57,472
I haven't been workin'for about a year.
1454
01:47:01,185 --> 01:47:04,484
And if it wasn't for William
knowing Miss Wier...
1455
01:47:04,589 --> 01:47:06,489
I wouldn't even be here.
1456
01:47:06,591 --> 01:47:08,468
'Cause I walked in the door and that's
1457
01:47:08,469 --> 01:47:11,085
the first thing I see on the sign
- "No openings. "
1458
01:47:11,195 --> 01:47:15,598
It ain't much better than a person
without a college degree can get.
1459
01:47:17,501 --> 01:47:20,800
So I feel like I'll be here
for quite a while.
1460
01:47:33,084 --> 01:47:35,314
What you lookin' at?
1461
01:47:35,419 --> 01:47:39,651
I don't believe people
when they be sayin; "Wow, school's hard.!'"
1462
01:47:39,757 --> 01:47:42,248
The work weren't hard for me.
1463
01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:44,920
All right. I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.
1464
01:47:45,029 --> 01:47:47,930
If I gotta do, like,
a report or somethin;..
1465
01:47:48,032 --> 01:47:51,866
I don't like none of the topics,
so I'll just pick somethin'that's simple.
1466
01:47:54,872 --> 01:47:57,136
So, what's the topic of your paper?
1467
01:47:57,241 --> 01:47:59,573
The life cycle of the butterfly.
1468
01:47:59,677 --> 01:48:02,578
- Gonna read it for us?
- Mm-mmm.
1469
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:04,580
Aw, come on.!
1470
01:48:04,682 --> 01:48:06,582
No, man!
1471
01:48:06,684 --> 01:48:09,517
- I wanna hear it-
- I'm just doin' this stuff!.
1472
01:48:09,620 --> 01:48:12,180
I know, but I just wanna hear
how you write.
1473
01:48:12,290 --> 01:48:14,690
"Well, as the people bloom
into another year-"
1474
01:48:14,792 --> 01:48:17,386
You know, the year just changed,
January 1.
1475
01:48:17,495 --> 01:48:19,395
"The butterfly also blooms.
1476
01:48:19,497 --> 01:48:21,897
The butterfly are very beautiful
flying objects. "
1477
01:48:21,999 --> 01:48:24,200
Then it say at the
beginning of the butterfly,
1478
01:48:24,201 --> 01:48:26,026
it goes through a change and all that.
1479
01:48:26,137 --> 01:48:29,038
Then I keep goin', man.
I just wanna, like, do that stuff.
1480
01:48:29,140 --> 01:48:32,041
Then I'll just keep goin'
on and on and on...
1481
01:48:32,143 --> 01:48:34,111
and I won't never stop.
1482
01:48:35,513 --> 01:48:38,277
Move out the way! Move!
Look out! Move out the way!
1483
01:48:40,551 --> 01:48:43,281
Its botanical name is Cannabis sativa.
1484
01:48:44,889 --> 01:48:48,017
Millions of Americans
break the law and use it.
1485
01:48:48,125 --> 01:48:50,025
Arthur's latest report card shows...
1486
01:48:50,127 --> 01:48:52,789
he's failing
both Spanish and Science.
1487
01:48:53,831 --> 01:48:55,731
he rushes through his work.
1488
01:48:55,833 --> 01:48:58,324
As you see,
he just missed one assignment.
1489
01:48:58,436 --> 01:49:00,336
Mm-hmm.
1490
01:49:00,438 --> 01:49:02,338
But his test scores were pretty low.
1491
01:49:02,440 --> 01:49:04,931
- he had a 10 on one test.
- Mmm-mm-mmm.
1492
01:49:05,042 --> 01:49:06,942
Will you do me a favor?
1493
01:49:07,044 --> 01:49:10,946
When you see things are slippin' like this,
give me a call and let me know.
1494
01:49:11,048 --> 01:49:13,448
Let me make sure I have
the right phone number.
1495
01:49:13,551 --> 01:49:15,451
So I can stay up on top of this boy.
1496
01:49:15,553 --> 01:49:17,453
Because he tells you one thing -
1497
01:49:17,555 --> 01:49:20,956
I say, "Where your book?" "We didn't have to
work on the book. It's in my locker. "
1498
01:49:21,058 --> 01:49:23,686
he gonna have to start
showin' me somethin' better.
1499
01:49:26,630 --> 01:49:27,538
he probably on the borderline,
1500
01:49:27,539 --> 01:49:28,996
and all that clownin',
people just give him an "F."
1501
01:49:29,100 --> 01:49:31,000
That's what I would do too.
1502
01:49:31,102 --> 01:49:34,003
But I'm gon' stay up on his behind
this time around.
1503
01:49:34,105 --> 01:49:37,506
'Cause I told him we payin' 181-odd dollars
out there to St. Joseph's...
1504
01:49:37,608 --> 01:49:39,508
Right.
1505
01:49:39,610 --> 01:49:41,009
for his transcripts.
1506
01:49:41,112 --> 01:49:43,383
he got the transcripts
and he ain't doin' that?
1507
01:49:43,384 --> 01:49:45,276
Uh-uh. It ain't gonna happen like that.
1508
01:49:51,689 --> 01:49:53,589
Man.!
1509
01:49:53,691 --> 01:49:56,421
You remember I told you,
whatever I start I finish.
1510
01:49:57,528 --> 01:50:00,827
I'm not like some people I know.
1511
01:50:00,931 --> 01:50:03,195
I don't need nobody to push me.
1512
01:50:04,235 --> 01:50:08,296
All I gotta do is have the goal
and the motivation, and I'm ready.
1513
01:50:08,406 --> 01:50:10,704
It's Sheila's graduation day...
1514
01:50:10,808 --> 01:50:13,709
from a nurse's assistants class
at a local community center.
1515
01:50:13,811 --> 01:50:16,712
A high grade
will assure her certification.
1516
01:50:16,814 --> 01:50:19,442
I want to be an R.N. nurse.
1517
01:50:19,550 --> 01:50:21,609
I've always had that dream.
1518
01:50:24,255 --> 01:50:26,519
Well, Miss Agee.
1519
01:50:34,031 --> 01:50:35,931
- Sheila.
- hmm?
1520
01:50:36,033 --> 01:50:39,469
You scored 89 on the exam.
1521
01:50:39,570 --> 01:50:43,472
You're gonna get the highest
grade point average for the class.
1522
01:50:43,574 --> 01:50:45,974
Really? Really?
1523
01:50:46,076 --> 01:50:48,044
No, no, no, no!
1524
01:50:50,014 --> 01:50:52,847
Oh, I love you, I love you, I love you!
1525
01:50:52,950 --> 01:50:55,418
Oh, I'm so happy!
1526
01:50:55,519 --> 01:50:57,749
Oh, thank you, Miss Martin!
1527
01:50:57,855 --> 01:50:59,755
You did it yourself.
1528
01:50:59,857 --> 01:51:02,758
Oh, thank you.
1529
01:51:02,860 --> 01:51:05,021
Oh, you so good.
1530
01:51:11,635 --> 01:51:14,195
I didn't think I could do it.
1531
01:51:14,305 --> 01:51:17,069
- I knew you could do it.
- Yeah, you did.
1532
01:51:17,174 --> 01:51:19,369
You gave me that belief in myself.
1533
01:51:20,578 --> 01:51:23,308
You're really inspiring me to go on.
1534
01:51:24,648 --> 01:51:27,276
Not just stop right here,
but go farther.
1535
01:51:28,319 --> 01:51:31,220
And people told me
I wasn't gon' be anything.
1536
01:52:28,946 --> 01:52:33,508
The gym is packed for today's
game against West Side rival, Westinghouse.
1537
01:52:36,787 --> 01:52:40,382
Marshall's rebounded
from last year's dismal 9 and 16 record...
1538
01:52:40,491 --> 01:52:42,459
to go 16 and six.
1539
01:52:44,695 --> 01:52:49,564
And Arthur has emerged as the Commandos'
second-leading scorer and assist man.
1540
01:52:53,404 --> 01:52:55,770
Rebound.!
1541
01:52:56,941 --> 01:52:59,910
Somejunior colleges have begun to notice.
1542
01:53:00,010 --> 01:53:03,571
A lot of these kids won't talk
to a junior college...
1543
01:53:03,681 --> 01:53:06,241
really until after they've seen
the dream of, you know...
1544
01:53:06,350 --> 01:53:09,717
Illinois and Nevada, Las Vegas
and Georgetown kind of fade.
1545
01:53:12,423 --> 01:53:15,256
Ajunior college could be Arthur's only hope.
1546
01:53:15,359 --> 01:53:18,260
Without better grades
and an 18 on the A.C. T...
1547
01:53:18,362 --> 01:53:21,058
major colleges can't offer him
a scholarship.
1548
01:53:21,165 --> 01:53:23,690
It's just too bad
those kids don't realize...
1549
01:53:23,801 --> 01:53:27,396
hey, if they had an 18,
the door is so much wider open.
1550
01:53:27,504 --> 01:53:31,031
You're in the middle.!
1551
01:53:34,511 --> 01:53:36,595
In the fourth quarter, the Commandos
1552
01:53:36,596 --> 01:53:39,107
fight back from an
11-point halftime deficit.
1553
01:53:39,216 --> 01:53:41,411
They trail by one.
1554
01:53:42,620 --> 01:53:45,180
We gotta play more aggressive on defense.
We're not good at playin' on defense.
1555
01:53:45,289 --> 01:53:46,483
Yeah, man.
1556
01:53:48,926 --> 01:53:50,621
Defense!
1557
01:54:01,472 --> 01:54:05,602
Derrick Zinneman's layup
pushes Marshall to a one-point lead.
1558
01:54:07,177 --> 01:54:09,702
Moments later,
a Westinghouse foul...
1559
01:54:09,813 --> 01:54:12,127
and then a double technical puts Arthur
1560
01:54:12,128 --> 01:54:14,716
on the line with a
chance to ice the victory.
1561
01:54:33,303 --> 01:54:36,136
One more! Whoo!
1562
01:54:45,215 --> 01:54:49,652
The upset win is sweet vindication
for the unranked Commandos.
1563
01:55:10,774 --> 01:55:13,868
- Arthur Agee, you lead the books.
- Junior!
1564
01:55:13,977 --> 01:55:17,037
You got seven.
1565
01:55:17,147 --> 01:55:20,878
Seven turnovers.
Even for the guards, that's too many.
1566
01:55:22,386 --> 01:55:26,584
This is a good win for you,
but it doesn't mean anything.
1567
01:55:26,690 --> 01:55:28,749
You gotta do better than that, man.
1568
01:55:28,859 --> 01:55:30,793
You have to do better than that.
1569
01:55:30,894 --> 01:55:32,794
Yeah, man.
That was a good game though.
1570
01:55:32,896 --> 01:55:34,864
You could have played better though,
you know.
1571
01:55:34,965 --> 01:55:37,832
Oh, Mom. You know he did good.
You'rejust killing me.
1572
01:55:37,935 --> 01:55:40,335
You know your mother's proud of you.
1573
01:55:40,437 --> 01:55:43,406
he been gettin' down.
1574
01:55:43,507 --> 01:55:46,635
Like a real star.
1575
01:55:49,146 --> 01:55:50,807
Number 11...
1576
01:55:50,914 --> 01:55:54,873
Arthur Agee.!
1577
01:55:57,621 --> 01:55:58,674
Nearly four years
1578
01:55:58,675 --> 01:56:01,148
after discovering Arthur
on the playground...
1579
01:56:01,258 --> 01:56:05,251
Earl Smith shows up to see Arthur win
his first play-off game.
1580
01:56:05,362 --> 01:56:10,959
I figured this game and the next game
may be his last high school ball game.
1581
01:56:13,437 --> 01:56:15,462
- Where you been, man?
- Where I been?
1582
01:56:15,572 --> 01:56:17,472
- Yeah. Where you been?
- I've been workin'.
1583
01:56:17,574 --> 01:56:19,872
- Oh, yeah, right.
- I've been following you in the paper.
1584
01:56:19,977 --> 01:56:23,242
- Oh, yeah. You impressed or somethin'?
- Yeah. I'm impressed. I'm here, ain't I?
1585
01:56:23,347 --> 01:56:26,783
- If I wasn't, I wouldn't have followed you.
- You been talking to Ping?
1586
01:56:26,884 --> 01:56:29,114
- For what?
- You don't talk to him no more?
1587
01:56:29,219 --> 01:56:31,744
- Why not?
- What do I have to talk to him about?
1588
01:56:31,855 --> 01:56:33,755
- Well,Jamal -
- You ain't there.
1589
01:56:33,857 --> 01:56:37,293
- Yeah, you're right. I had to break out.
- Yeah.
1590
01:56:38,328 --> 01:56:43,231
So I was thinkin' about goin' tonight
to see, uh, St. Joe and Nazareth play...
1591
01:56:43,333 --> 01:56:47,030
but I wasn't sure
if you had time to do it.
1592
01:56:48,505 --> 01:56:50,473
Yeah.
1593
01:56:51,809 --> 01:56:55,438
I've got a bitter taste in my mouth
about a lot of things that happened.
1594
01:56:55,546 --> 01:56:59,573
A lot of people accuse me
of taking youngsters...
1595
01:56:59,683 --> 01:57:02,345
out of the inner city and taking them out
to St. Joe high School...
1596
01:57:02,452 --> 01:57:05,046
and they ask
what did I get out of the deal and...
1597
01:57:05,155 --> 01:57:09,615
a lot of racial slurs and so forth from
my own people about me, about what I did.
1598
01:57:09,726 --> 01:57:13,753
I still felt and feel
that I was doing the right thing...
1599
01:57:13,864 --> 01:57:15,923
for that particular time.
1600
01:57:16,033 --> 01:57:19,400
Uh, sometimes I have second thoughts...
1601
01:57:19,503 --> 01:57:22,438
when I see the net results
of what happened with the youngsters.
1602
01:57:46,964 --> 01:57:49,023
Arthur.
1603
01:57:49,132 --> 01:57:51,157
- Arthur-
- Arthur Agee, sophomore.
1604
01:57:51,268 --> 01:57:53,168
My gosh. What are you doin'?
1605
01:57:53,270 --> 01:57:55,204
- What are you doin' now?
- Goin' to school.
1606
01:57:55,305 --> 01:57:57,205
- Where?
- Marshall.
1607
01:57:57,307 --> 01:58:00,470
Oh, I taught him.
Can you believe it?
1608
01:58:00,577 --> 01:58:03,539
- So you came in case you
have to play St. Joe's?
1609
01:58:03,540 --> 01:58:04,013
- Yeah.
1610
01:58:04,114 --> 01:58:06,344
Arthur. Arthur.
1611
01:58:10,621 --> 01:58:12,521
- What's up, man?
- What's up, man?
1612
01:58:12,623 --> 01:58:14,832
- What you been up to?
You playing basketball?
1613
01:58:14,833 --> 01:58:15,490
- What? Yeah.
1614
01:58:15,592 --> 01:58:17,685
- how'd you guys do?
- We did a'ight. Still playin;
1615
01:58:17,794 --> 01:58:20,024
Still playin'?
When's your next game?
1616
01:58:20,130 --> 01:58:21,976
- We gotta play Crane.
high school in Chicago.
1617
01:58:21,977 --> 01:58:22,530
- That's cool.
1618
01:58:22,633 --> 01:58:24,533
It'll be all right.
1619
01:58:49,726 --> 01:58:53,093
William is benched
for arriving late to the locker room...
1620
01:58:53,196 --> 01:58:56,097
and Nazareth threatens.
1621
01:59:03,106 --> 01:59:07,065
William enters the game to go head-to-head
with Nazareth star Sean Pearson...
1622
01:59:07,177 --> 01:59:10,340
his friend and roommate
from the Nike camp.
1623
01:59:18,555 --> 01:59:21,581
The favored Chargers
race to an early 14-point lead...
1624
01:59:21,692 --> 01:59:24,252
in this second-round play-off game.
1625
01:59:24,361 --> 01:59:27,660
Give me an "E"!
Give me an "R"!
1626
01:59:28,765 --> 01:59:30,733
But near the end of the game...
1627
01:59:30,834 --> 01:59:32,802
St. Joe's begins to unravel.
1628
01:59:42,512 --> 01:59:44,412
William takes control.
1629
01:59:54,891 --> 01:59:57,382
Pearson responds.
1630
02:00:03,333 --> 02:00:07,429
his three-point shot gives the Roadrunners
their first lead of the game.
1631
02:00:11,908 --> 02:00:16,345
For the Chargers, their whole season
may come down to this possession.
1632
02:00:19,549 --> 02:00:22,074
Down by one,
with just over a minute remaining.
1633
02:00:22,185 --> 02:00:27,521
A loss tonight would be their earliest
exit from the play-offs in six years.
1634
02:00:27,624 --> 02:00:30,218
And for William,
there is no next year...
1635
02:00:30,327 --> 02:00:32,659
no more chances to get downstate.
1636
02:01:44,868 --> 02:01:47,530
It ain't but one thing: bad coaching.
1637
02:01:47,637 --> 02:01:49,537
Bad coaching.
1638
02:01:52,109 --> 02:01:54,976
Well, we got him here
about five minutes late.
1639
02:01:55,078 --> 02:01:59,606
So what? This -This ain't no time
to be teaching nobody no lesson.
1640
02:02:10,760 --> 02:02:12,660
All right, boy.
1641
02:02:13,830 --> 02:02:15,798
It's all right, bro.
1642
02:02:17,667 --> 02:02:20,864
- You all right? You're crying, man.
- Shut up.
1643
02:02:20,971 --> 02:02:23,235
Yeah.
1644
02:02:23,340 --> 02:02:25,865
- It hurt, don't it?
- Yeah. More than ever, man.
1645
02:02:25,976 --> 02:02:29,016
- I didn't never want
to go out this way, man.
1646
02:02:29,017 --> 02:02:30,504
- Your last year, man.
1647
02:02:30,614 --> 02:02:33,583
I'm trying to get it, man.
I'm striving for the same thing.
1648
02:02:37,120 --> 02:02:39,247
hey, man. We'll call you.
Give me a ring. All right?
1649
02:02:39,356 --> 02:02:42,553
- All right.
- You played a good game, boy. All right.
1650
02:02:42,659 --> 02:02:45,594
You're gonna be all right.
1651
02:02:45,695 --> 02:02:48,255
- I love you, boy.
- I love you too, man.
1652
02:02:48,365 --> 02:02:50,333
All right.
1653
02:02:55,138 --> 02:02:58,266
William was 20 minutes late.
1654
02:02:58,375 --> 02:03:00,741
The team was dressed and already talking.
1655
02:03:00,844 --> 02:03:03,506
Then he came strolling in.
1656
02:03:03,613 --> 02:03:06,047
Maybe he has to learn something from that.
1657
02:03:06,149 --> 02:03:08,811
Even in a big game.
1658
02:03:11,855 --> 02:03:13,755
The game was a mirror-
1659
02:03:13,857 --> 02:03:16,758
It was a mirror
of all of the games all year.
1660
02:03:16,860 --> 02:03:21,957
To quote Isiah, the toughest loss
he ever took was the-
1661
02:03:22,065 --> 02:03:24,425
My toughest. And that
was the De La Salle game
1662
02:03:24,426 --> 02:03:26,434
in 1979 when we got beat at the buzzer.
1663
02:03:26,536 --> 02:03:30,529
On a 30-footer. And we were favored
to win the state that year.
1664
02:03:30,640 --> 02:03:35,509
Um, now we look back on it
as just one of those great moments in -
1665
02:03:35,612 --> 02:03:38,172
in our high school scene.
1666
02:03:38,281 --> 02:03:40,749
Our toughest loss to take,
and we talk about it.
1667
02:03:40,850 --> 02:03:43,842
So that's what I look at, you know,
with these things now.
1668
02:03:45,355 --> 02:03:48,552
- Arthur, we could have used you tonight.
- Yeah.
1669
02:03:48,658 --> 02:03:51,024
Good luck.
I'm gonna be watchin'. Don't forget.
1670
02:03:51,127 --> 02:03:53,027
Stay in touch.
1671
02:03:53,129 --> 02:03:55,029
- 'Cause we've talked about -You know.
- Yeah.
1672
02:03:55,131 --> 02:03:56,564
- School.
- Yeah.
1673
02:03:56,666 --> 02:03:58,861
All right. I'm watching you score.
how's your grades?
1674
02:03:58,969 --> 02:04:00,869
- They're all right.
- Good.
1675
02:04:00,971 --> 02:04:02,871
- They're all right.
- We missed you.
1676
02:04:02,973 --> 02:04:07,376
- I missed y'all too.
- Well, I'm proud of what you've done.
1677
02:04:07,477 --> 02:04:09,843
Mr. Bedford said
a lot of good things about you.
1678
02:04:09,946 --> 02:04:12,346
- You be in touch. Okay?
- Okay. All right.
1679
02:04:12,449 --> 02:04:14,349
- Good luck.
- All right. You too.
1680
02:04:38,341 --> 02:04:42,107
Marshall's second-round opponent,
Manley, presents little challenge.
1681
02:04:42,212 --> 02:04:45,545
This just explains a little bit
about our program...
1682
02:04:45,649 --> 02:04:47,844
where our program's headed.
1683
02:04:47,951 --> 02:04:50,579
I like what you're sayin;
and I want him close to home.
1684
02:04:50,687 --> 02:04:52,780
- Yeah.
- You know. And, uh -
1685
02:04:52,889 --> 02:04:55,221
I think, you know -
I'm kind of leaning your way...
1686
02:04:55,325 --> 02:04:58,148
because I just thank God
that he's getting into it -
1687
02:04:58,149 --> 02:04:59,853
you know, somebody do want him.
1688
02:05:02,365 --> 02:05:04,833
I'm Tommy Travis,
Northeastern Illinois assistant coach.
1689
02:05:04,934 --> 02:05:06,834
- Okay. Nice to meet you.
- I'm Arthur's father.
1690
02:05:06,936 --> 02:05:09,200
- Arthur hester.
- Okay. Arthur hester.
1691
02:05:09,306 --> 02:05:10,830
Us Arts gotta stick together.
1692
02:05:10,940 --> 02:05:12,339
- I'm over at Kennedy-King.
- Kennedy-King?
1693
02:05:12,442 --> 02:05:14,342
- Yeah.
- Okay.
1694
02:05:14,444 --> 02:05:16,537
May the best man win.
1695
02:05:16,646 --> 02:05:20,275
- I thought mom was a cheerleader.
- Oh, thanks.
1696
02:05:21,518 --> 02:05:23,486
Thank you for the compliment.
1697
02:05:23,586 --> 02:05:27,386
his parents seem to think
he may, uh, pass the A.C.T.
1698
02:05:27,490 --> 02:05:29,788
- he may what?
- he may pass it.
1699
02:05:29,893 --> 02:05:32,361
Oh, yeah.
Well, I hope he does.
1700
02:05:32,462 --> 02:05:34,987
- Us Arts gotta stick together, guy.
- Yeah.
1701
02:05:36,666 --> 02:05:38,463
- Okay.
- hey.
1702
02:05:38,568 --> 02:05:41,731
Would you get excited if a college coach
came up and talked to you?
1703
02:05:42,772 --> 02:05:44,740
Not really.
1704
02:05:45,775 --> 02:05:47,675
Really, it's just-
You'rejust going...
1705
02:05:47,777 --> 02:05:50,473
to another level
ofbasketball. That's all.
1706
02:05:50,580 --> 02:05:52,673
I'll be excited when I get there.
1707
02:05:52,782 --> 02:05:55,478
That's when you'll be
excited the whole year.
1708
02:05:55,585 --> 02:05:59,453
I'll be excited as soon as I step up
in there - first day of practice.
1709
02:06:00,924 --> 02:06:03,950
If I graduate, I think I'll be
the only one in my family...
1710
02:06:04,060 --> 02:06:06,893
besides my uncle,
to finish college.
1711
02:06:06,996 --> 02:06:09,191
Me too.
1712
02:06:11,801 --> 02:06:14,326
In the fourth round
against heavily favored Taft...
1713
02:06:14,437 --> 02:06:17,406
Marshall meets their first
true test of the play-offs.
1714
02:06:21,578 --> 02:06:24,308
But the Commandos have been
bucking the odds all year.
1715
02:06:34,424 --> 02:06:37,552
Arthur plays one ofhis best games
of the season...
1716
02:06:37,660 --> 02:06:39,560
scoring 19 points...
1717
02:06:39,662 --> 02:06:43,120
and the Commandos claim a spot
in the city semifinals.
1718
02:06:53,743 --> 02:06:58,771
The final four! I told y'all
he was going all the way. All the way!
1719
02:06:58,882 --> 02:07:01,578
Do you guys feel you can play with
any team in the city?
1720
02:07:01,684 --> 02:07:04,380
On any given day, we can play with anybody.
We can beat anybody.
1721
02:07:16,065 --> 02:07:18,590
Marshall now faces
the ultimate test::
1722
02:07:18,701 --> 02:07:22,102
King high School,
the rulers of the public league.
1723
02:07:24,207 --> 02:07:26,302
Winners oflast year's state crown,
1724
02:07:26,303 --> 02:07:29,076
they were labeled the
best team in the country.
1725
02:07:29,179 --> 02:07:32,842
King has sparked controversy
by out-recruiting rivals...
1726
02:07:32,949 --> 02:07:36,112
for the biggest and best
grammar school players.
1727
02:07:36,219 --> 02:07:40,656
We don't understand what
we're really doing to these young kids.
1728
02:07:40,757 --> 02:07:42,657
Kid not even 12 years old...
1729
02:07:42,759 --> 02:07:44,989
and you're baiting him
to come to your school...
1730
02:07:45,094 --> 02:07:46,994
you know, to play basketball.
1731
02:07:47,096 --> 02:07:49,189
Falls back in the paint.
1732
02:07:49,299 --> 02:07:51,995
I'm not going to start
recruiting in that manner.
1733
02:07:52,101 --> 02:07:55,400
No, I'll probably get out
of the game before then.
1734
02:07:57,707 --> 02:08:00,107
The winner of these two semifinal games...
1735
02:08:00,210 --> 02:08:04,169
will play for the Chicago Public
high School Basketball Championship.
1736
02:08:09,953 --> 02:08:15,323
King's strategy is to
go inside to its two seven-foot starters.
1737
02:08:19,762 --> 02:08:23,198
Only Arthur seems
unintimidated by theJaguars.
1738
02:08:29,372 --> 02:08:32,136
And King's poor play
keeps the game close.
1739
02:08:33,176 --> 02:08:35,770
We are the... best.!
We are the team!
1740
02:08:35,879 --> 02:08:38,006
I think they gonna take it.
1741
02:08:39,048 --> 02:08:42,506
But in the second half,
King makes their move.
1742
02:08:46,322 --> 02:08:48,483
- What are you doin'?
- Come on. Get in the game.!
1743
02:08:48,591 --> 02:08:51,025
King grabs a four-point lead.
1744
02:08:51,127 --> 02:08:53,527
hey, Mookie, Mookie, Mookie!
1745
02:08:53,630 --> 02:08:55,962
Y'all playing
with no confidence whatsoever.
1746
02:08:56,065 --> 02:08:57,999
None!
1747
02:08:58,101 --> 02:09:00,399
None.!
1748
02:09:00,503 --> 02:09:03,404
- All right! Go get in charge of that ball!
- Don't foul him! Don't foul him!
1749
02:09:08,244 --> 02:09:09,711
Let's go! Let's go!
1750
02:09:09,812 --> 02:09:12,747
The Commandos get aggressive on defense...
1751
02:09:12,849 --> 02:09:15,044
Too soon now!
1752
02:09:15,151 --> 02:09:18,211
and use their superior speed on offense.
1753
02:09:29,999 --> 02:09:33,127
Players, sit down.
We got three minutes to go. Sit down.
1754
02:09:33,236 --> 02:09:36,330
Marshall grabs a six-point lead
late in the game.
1755
02:09:36,439 --> 02:09:38,430
We got a long time to play.
1756
02:09:39,809 --> 02:09:42,937
Coach Bedford wants to force King
out of their zone defense...
1757
02:09:43,046 --> 02:09:47,380
and make their big, slow players match up
man-to-man against Marshall's quick guards.
1758
02:09:47,483 --> 02:09:49,883
One, two, three. Defense!
1759
02:09:53,756 --> 02:09:57,089
Arthur simply holds the ball
as the clock ticks away.
1760
02:10:03,566 --> 02:10:06,194
The King coach has no choice.
1761
02:10:25,321 --> 02:10:28,984
For the defending national champions,
it's all over.
1762
02:10:34,764 --> 02:10:38,029
And unranked Marshall
will play for the city title.
1763
02:10:55,652 --> 02:10:59,850
Whoo! 26-2 now!
1764
02:11:01,624 --> 02:11:04,058
They're 26 and 2 now.
1765
02:11:04,160 --> 02:11:06,685
That's my Man!
1766
02:11:07,730 --> 02:11:10,028
All right, Man!
1767
02:11:10,133 --> 02:11:12,033
- I told you we could do it.
- Yes!
1768
02:11:12,135 --> 02:11:14,865
- I told you we could do it.
- I told you you were gonna do it.
1769
02:11:14,971 --> 02:11:16,871
I knew y'all was going all the way.
I told ya.
1770
02:11:16,973 --> 02:11:18,873
I said, "You're going all the way. "
1771
02:11:19,909 --> 02:11:23,276
This is your last year.
You're going all the way. Yeah.
1772
02:11:25,348 --> 02:11:28,442
They got the best shot ofhim,you know.
1773
02:11:28,551 --> 02:11:31,952
And it's great.
That was a great shot, wasn't it?
1774
02:11:32,055 --> 02:11:36,583
But this one in the, uh, Tribune
is what I really like.
1775
02:11:36,693 --> 02:11:40,493
It says,
"Arthur Agee stood as still as a statue.
1776
02:11:40,596 --> 02:11:43,963
Time after time was on his side. "
1777
02:11:44,067 --> 02:11:47,400
You know, the championship
that I missed when I was in high school-
1778
02:11:47,503 --> 02:11:49,403
Yeah.
1779
02:11:49,505 --> 02:11:53,134
Twenty-one years later I got a chance
at getting a championship through him.
1780
02:11:53,242 --> 02:11:55,767
You know, you're always trying to
build your children up...
1781
02:11:55,878 --> 02:11:57,778
and saying, "Well, you-all can do it"...
1782
02:11:57,880 --> 02:12:00,678
but, you know, really lying on
the inside a little bit, saying...
1783
02:12:00,783 --> 02:12:02,683
"Well, you know, you got a long haul. "
1784
02:12:02,785 --> 02:12:04,844
But, you know,
this make you even more confidence...
1785
02:12:04,954 --> 02:12:07,889
because if he's sure of hisself,
then you know you can bank on it.
1786
02:12:07,990 --> 02:12:12,484
Yesterday, you know, when he won the game,
you know, he told me he loved me.
1787
02:12:12,595 --> 02:12:15,257
And, you know, I haven't heard that
in, uh -You know.
1788
02:12:15,364 --> 02:12:19,801
You can feel it, but I haven't heard it
coming verbally from him.
1789
02:12:30,413 --> 02:12:33,871
In a rematch with rival Westinghouse...
1790
02:12:33,983 --> 02:12:38,044
Marshall proves to everybody
they have what it takes to be city champs.
1791
02:12:38,154 --> 02:12:40,987
Inside pass. Shot rejected.
1792
02:12:45,328 --> 02:12:48,195
To the lane with the layin.
1793
02:12:48,297 --> 02:12:51,061
Busts this game wide open.
1794
02:12:51,167 --> 02:12:55,536
Did you see that?
Did you see it? Did you see it?
1795
02:12:57,006 --> 02:13:00,066
They are celebrating because they know...
1796
02:13:00,176 --> 02:13:03,202
their high school is headed
to the elite eight in Champaign.
1797
02:13:06,883 --> 02:13:10,683
And the Marshall Commandos
have won the Public League Championship...
1798
02:13:10,787 --> 02:13:12,914
in convincing fashion-
1799
02:13:13,022 --> 02:13:18,016
58-38 winners over
the Westinghouse Warriors.
1800
02:13:32,008 --> 02:13:34,943
What's up, man?
Told you on the phone what I was gonna do.
1801
02:13:35,044 --> 02:13:37,012
Told you, boy.
1802
02:13:40,183 --> 02:13:42,981
Marshall, baby. Marshall!
1803
02:13:43,085 --> 02:13:44,985
Marshall!
1804
02:13:45,087 --> 02:13:48,887
Marshall.! Marshall.!
1805
02:13:48,991 --> 02:13:52,825
Marshall.! Marshall.!
1806
02:13:59,969 --> 02:14:03,962
Your A.C.T. came in, William,
and you received a 14 for a composite...
1807
02:14:04,073 --> 02:14:06,268
which is not high enough.
1808
02:14:06,375 --> 02:14:09,105
Uh,you've taken the test-
Now, this was for the fourth time.
1809
02:14:09,212 --> 02:14:12,704
Now, if you add all those up,
it comes out to 17.2.
1810
02:14:12,815 --> 02:14:15,579
In order to play at Marquette,
you're gonna have to get the 18.
1811
02:14:15,685 --> 02:14:17,585
And they're very, very concerned.
1812
02:14:17,687 --> 02:14:21,623
One assistant called twice this week,
and Bo Ellis called today.
1813
02:14:23,759 --> 02:14:26,387
Smile, William.
It's not the end of the world.
1814
02:14:26,495 --> 02:14:28,429
- Right?
- I hope not.
1815
02:14:28,531 --> 02:14:31,762
Well,you gotta work at this
as hard as you worked at yourjump shot.
1816
02:14:31,868 --> 02:14:34,359
And it was missing a lot this year.
1817
02:14:34,470 --> 02:14:36,438
Okay.
1818
02:14:36,539 --> 02:14:40,066
Now you are down to the final inning
and the last strike.
1819
02:14:46,515 --> 02:14:49,450
We're going, going downstate!
We're going downstate!
1820
02:14:49,552 --> 02:14:52,715
Now let's, let's celebrate!
Now let's celebrate!
1821
02:14:52,822 --> 02:14:55,586
- What are we gonna be?
- State champions.!
1822
02:14:55,691 --> 02:14:58,558
Your Marshall Commandos.!
1823
02:15:02,965 --> 02:15:05,058
- Yeah!
- We're gonna take state!
1824
02:15:05,167 --> 02:15:07,328
Take state! Number one!
1825
02:15:33,229 --> 02:15:36,062
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A.!
1826
02:15:36,165 --> 02:15:39,157
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A.!
1827
02:15:39,268 --> 02:15:43,364
Beat B-A - B-A-T-A-V-I-A!
1828
02:15:52,415 --> 02:15:56,442
Downstate Marshall plays
its familiar role as underdog...
1829
02:15:56,552 --> 02:15:58,452
to third-ranked Batavia.
1830
02:15:58,554 --> 02:16:00,454
Justice has it. Justice, one-on-two.
1831
02:16:00,556 --> 02:16:03,150
- Spins up-
- Nice move.
1832
02:16:07,063 --> 02:16:11,124
In the media glare of a statewide
audience, Marshall shows big-gamejitters.
1833
02:16:11,233 --> 02:16:13,167
Now bust out.
1834
02:16:13,269 --> 02:16:16,102
And Marshall missed the layup.
1835
02:16:17,606 --> 02:16:20,040
Sealed off,blocked by Williams.
1836
02:16:20,142 --> 02:16:24,044
You got easy shots.
You gotta make your easy shots.
1837
02:16:24,146 --> 02:16:26,114
I can't shoot for you.
1838
02:16:26,215 --> 02:16:30,914
Now he's gonna penetrate.
Left it for Christian. Missed the shot.
1839
02:16:31,020 --> 02:16:35,923
Luther Bedford looks like
he's ready to commit suicide over there.
1840
02:16:36,025 --> 02:16:38,619
Y'all better get on your job,
Commandos!
1841
02:16:38,728 --> 02:16:40,855
- Now into the corner.
- Get in there.
1842
02:16:40,963 --> 02:16:44,330
Batavia's got these guys on the run.
1843
02:16:46,435 --> 02:16:48,335
One, one, one, one!
1844
02:16:48,437 --> 02:16:50,905
One, one, one, one.!
1845
02:16:52,375 --> 02:16:55,435
But in the third quarter,
the Commandos charge back.
1846
02:16:55,544 --> 02:16:57,444
And a steal by Marshall.!
1847
02:16:57,546 --> 02:17:00,242
Agee gonna take it all the way.
1848
02:17:00,349 --> 02:17:04,513
Yes! That's the way you go!
1849
02:17:04,620 --> 02:17:06,781
- here we go.
- Picked him clean.
1850
02:17:06,889 --> 02:17:08,823
Dale. Marshall leads.
1851
02:17:08,924 --> 02:17:12,018
Marshall's first lead
since the first quarter.
1852
02:17:12,128 --> 02:17:15,120
Like a lightning bolt,
the Commandos have struck.
1853
02:17:15,231 --> 02:17:18,758
37-36, Marshall leading Batavia.
1854
02:17:18,868 --> 02:17:21,598
Chicago Marshall has exploded-
1855
02:17:26,342 --> 02:17:28,276
I always dreamed of,like...
1856
02:17:28,377 --> 02:17:31,175
me and William taking
them downstate together.
1857
02:17:32,281 --> 02:17:34,181
When I was at St. Joseph...
1858
02:17:34,283 --> 02:17:36,877
maybe we could have went downstate,
and maybe we couldn't.
1859
02:17:36,986 --> 02:17:39,921
But we did when I'm at Marshall.
1860
02:17:53,536 --> 02:17:56,130
Arthur's big fourth quarter
helps add Batavia...
1861
02:17:56,238 --> 02:17:58,172
to Marshall's growing list of upsets.
1862
02:17:58,274 --> 02:18:01,869
Spectacular comeback
in the fourth quarter by the Commandos-
1863
02:18:01,977 --> 02:18:03,877
In the postgame news conference...
1864
02:18:03,979 --> 02:18:07,176
Coach Bedford labels
his unranked team "the giant killers. '"
1865
02:18:11,187 --> 02:18:13,917
- Y'all are playing the number one team.
- We're playing the number one team.
1866
02:18:14,023 --> 02:18:15,923
We're playing the number two team.
1867
02:18:16,025 --> 02:18:19,893
This is the first time in the history
of the school that we've gone this far.
1868
02:18:19,995 --> 02:18:22,623
- Really?
- In the history of the school.
1869
02:18:22,731 --> 02:18:25,097
Just like the Commandos.
See, we been the underdog.
1870
02:18:25,201 --> 02:18:28,602
I'm glad we are because then
it just show you how you could come up.
1871
02:18:28,704 --> 02:18:31,229
And then you beat your opponent.
1872
02:18:33,442 --> 02:18:35,672
Oh,yeah.
1873
02:18:49,592 --> 02:18:52,584
Be a good place for Man to come.
1874
02:18:52,695 --> 02:18:55,858
Yeah. This is really, you know,
something that a -
1875
02:18:55,965 --> 02:18:58,559
a child would really miss out on.
1876
02:18:58,667 --> 02:19:01,227
Like a whole different world.
1877
02:19:01,337 --> 02:19:03,328
It's beyond different.
1878
02:19:03,439 --> 02:19:06,067
Uh-huh.
1879
02:19:14,150 --> 02:19:17,950
In this semifinal game,
we'll see some great individuals...
1880
02:19:18,053 --> 02:19:20,078
just as we saw many years ago.
1881
02:19:20,189 --> 02:19:23,158
Remember Isiah Thomas,
one of the great guards.
1882
02:19:23,259 --> 02:19:26,660
here you see the same moves
he plays with in the NBA today.
1883
02:19:26,762 --> 02:19:30,755
Well, we've got someone like that:
howard Nathan, number 34...
1884
02:19:30,866 --> 02:19:32,800
for Peoria Manual.
1885
02:19:32,902 --> 02:19:34,995
Marshall got here because of
one reason: quickness.
1886
02:19:35,104 --> 02:19:39,234
The reason: Arthur Agee.
Look at this man. he just explodes, Dan.
1887
02:19:39,341 --> 02:19:43,038
he can get downcourt
as quick as anyone I've ever seen.
1888
02:19:43,145 --> 02:19:45,045
In the semifinals...
1889
02:19:45,147 --> 02:19:48,514
Arthur goes head-to-head
with howard Nathan, the all-American.
1890
02:19:48,617 --> 02:19:51,643
Make him work for it, Man.
Make him work for what he get.
1891
02:19:52,688 --> 02:19:55,816
All right! Let's go!
All the way, Man! All the way!
1892
02:19:57,159 --> 02:20:00,151
Yeah! That's it! That's it! That's it!
1893
02:20:00,262 --> 02:20:04,892
Arthur Agee, spinning inside,
tough shot. Good.
1894
02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:07,195
Arthur has a great first half...
1895
02:20:07,303 --> 02:20:09,533
but the Rams play even better.
1896
02:20:11,207 --> 02:20:13,607
he's got it.
1897
02:20:14,643 --> 02:20:17,339
Get up for the Rams!
Everybody get up!
1898
02:20:17,446 --> 02:20:19,710
Get up for the Rams.!
1899
02:20:19,815 --> 02:20:23,342
In the second half,
Arthur tries to pick up where he left off.
1900
02:20:23,452 --> 02:20:25,216
Penetration move by Agee. Slapped
1901
02:20:25,217 --> 02:20:27,616
out of there by Manual.
They've got two-on-one.
1902
02:20:27,723 --> 02:20:30,658
Ooh, and a nice fake and a score.
1903
02:20:30,759 --> 02:20:33,592
But it's the Rams who don't miss a beat...
1904
02:20:33,696 --> 02:20:35,630
pressing the tempo against
the tired Commandos.
1905
02:20:35,731 --> 02:20:38,393
You're not in the offense at all.
1906
02:20:38,500 --> 02:20:41,128
You're just out there
playing individual basketball.
1907
02:20:41,237 --> 02:20:43,137
Completely.
1908
02:20:43,239 --> 02:20:47,266
hey, hey, guys. No fouls.
We want to keep the clock going. Remember?
1909
02:20:47,376 --> 02:20:49,401
Let's go, Marshall!
Let's go!
1910
02:20:49,511 --> 02:20:52,241
Let's go, Marshall.!
Let's go.!
1911
02:20:52,348 --> 02:20:55,442
Marshall showed us last night
they have the ability to come back.
1912
02:20:55,551 --> 02:20:57,542
Let's see what they can do here.
1913
02:21:12,201 --> 02:21:14,294
This is Nathan.
1914
02:21:14,403 --> 02:21:16,303
Nice pass.
Knock it down.
1915
02:21:16,405 --> 02:21:20,205
Biggest lead of the game now,
and the Rams fans can smell it.
1916
02:21:21,710 --> 02:21:24,577
Been a great run
for Luther Bedford's team.
1917
02:21:25,614 --> 02:21:27,980
The string of upsets stops here.
1918
02:21:29,618 --> 02:21:32,610
- And a foul on Agee.
- he fouls out.
1919
02:21:32,721 --> 02:21:35,884
But hejust never quit.
hejust kept going for the basketball.
1920
02:21:40,829 --> 02:21:45,289
I wouldn't be surprised
ifhe made the all-tournament team tonight.
1921
02:22:05,621 --> 02:22:08,146
- Number one!
- We're number one.!
1922
02:22:08,257 --> 02:22:10,191
We're still number one.
1923
02:22:10,292 --> 02:22:12,192
All right. All right.
1924
02:22:12,294 --> 02:22:14,285
Though they lose to Peoria Manual...
1925
02:22:14,396 --> 02:22:19,527
they finish third in the state, the highest
a Marshall team has finished since 1960.
1926
02:22:22,104 --> 02:22:25,562
This was a great season you had.
1927
02:22:25,674 --> 02:22:30,771
There is nothing sweeter
than going downstate as a young person.
1928
02:22:30,879 --> 02:22:33,245
I mean, the record's
gonna stay there, you know.
1929
02:22:33,349 --> 02:22:36,716
1991, there was a team
from Marshall played.
1930
02:22:36,819 --> 02:22:39,049
- You know, and you're part of that.
- Yeah.
1931
02:22:39,154 --> 02:22:41,281
- That's part of history.
- Ah!
1932
02:22:41,390 --> 02:22:44,553
But for you seniors,you know-
1933
02:22:44,660 --> 02:22:49,723
Best wishes to all you seniors,
and whatever you try to do, uh...
1934
02:22:49,832 --> 02:22:52,323
Mr. Williams and I
will be around school...
1935
02:22:52,434 --> 02:22:54,334
as we always are -
1936
02:22:54,436 --> 02:22:57,166
to help you if you want to be helped, okay?
1937
02:22:59,408 --> 02:23:03,139
Winning five games in six days,
that really takes a lot out of you.
1938
02:23:03,245 --> 02:23:06,237
Like Coach said,you just gotta sacrifice-
1939
02:23:06,348 --> 02:23:08,339
you know, sacrifice everything you have.
1940
02:23:08,450 --> 02:23:10,179
Like, if you love the
game of basketball,
1941
02:23:10,180 --> 02:23:12,113
you just go out there
and give all your heart.
1942
02:23:12,221 --> 02:23:15,281
he got a little ways to go,
but he's - he's gonna get there.
1943
02:23:15,391 --> 02:23:17,916
hopefully he's got his head
screwed on pretty good, you know...
1944
02:23:18,026 --> 02:23:22,190
and now, you know,
he's gonna be on his own to do whatever.
1945
02:23:22,297 --> 02:23:24,197
hopefully he'll do it right.
1946
02:23:24,299 --> 02:23:27,928
When we got down here, people don't expect -
"Marshall? how'd they get down here?"
1947
02:23:28,036 --> 02:23:30,029
They lookin' like: "Who
they got on their team?"
1948
02:23:30,030 --> 02:23:31,494
I had to come out and prove myself.
1949
02:23:31,607 --> 02:23:35,338
I think I could play Division I basketball.
1950
02:23:35,444 --> 02:23:39,403
'Cause all I need is just a scholarship.
That's -That's all I'm looking for.
1951
02:23:39,515 --> 02:23:41,483
Arthur Agee.
1952
02:23:46,722 --> 02:23:48,690
All right!
1953
02:24:09,077 --> 02:24:12,376
All this area through here
is our new computer labs.
1954
02:24:12,481 --> 02:24:14,415
We'll take you through
all those rooms.
1955
02:24:14,516 --> 02:24:16,541
Arthur's first recruiting visit...
1956
02:24:16,652 --> 02:24:18,813
takes him to a junior college
in Southern Missouri.
1957
02:24:18,921 --> 02:24:21,069
The strength that I see here
1958
02:24:21,070 --> 02:24:24,325
is the tremendous
teaching that goes on here.
1959
02:24:24,426 --> 02:24:26,690
have you decided
what you want to go into?
1960
02:24:26,795 --> 02:24:28,990
Uh, communications.
1961
02:24:29,097 --> 02:24:33,056
Are you more interested
in the overall communications -
1962
02:24:33,168 --> 02:24:35,728
That, and, uh -
I like that and accounting.
1963
02:24:35,838 --> 02:24:38,170
- Like business.
- Oh. Okay.
1964
02:24:38,273 --> 02:24:42,209
We enjoy winning things,
but the primary purpose is your education.
1965
02:24:42,311 --> 02:24:44,472
What are some of your career goals,
may I ask?
1966
02:24:44,580 --> 02:24:48,949
I want to fall back to,
like, make - have my own business.
1967
02:24:49,051 --> 02:24:51,019
Like real estate.
1968
02:24:53,822 --> 02:24:56,120
This is where it all happens.
1969
02:24:56,225 --> 02:24:59,319
Beautiful place.
And it gets to rockin;
1970
02:24:59,428 --> 02:25:02,329
- You gonna try it on there?
- Yeah.
1971
02:25:02,431 --> 02:25:05,025
Those are about $ 120 apiece.
1972
02:25:08,136 --> 02:25:10,696
You need to be very careful
with this decision.
1973
02:25:10,806 --> 02:25:12,967
You know, if you come in and act right,
you're going out ofhere...
1974
02:25:13,075 --> 02:25:14,975
with two years
of your college finished...
1975
02:25:15,077 --> 02:25:18,740
a scholarship to a Division I university.
1976
02:25:18,847 --> 02:25:23,147
Exactly where you'd want to be-
on track to graduate in four years.
1977
02:25:49,678 --> 02:25:51,669
Mineral Area doesn't have dorms...
1978
02:25:51,780 --> 02:25:54,806
but it does have a basketball house.
1979
02:25:54,917 --> 02:25:58,512
All the ballplayers
on scholarship live here.
1980
02:25:58,620 --> 02:26:01,054
Get your ass up, nigga.
1981
02:26:05,127 --> 02:26:07,595
Of the seven blacks
in the entire school...
1982
02:26:07,696 --> 02:26:09,664
six live in this house.
1983
02:26:14,136 --> 02:26:18,505
You come in and look at this little house,
then after a while you get used to it.
1984
02:26:19,541 --> 02:26:21,441
Try to make a little home, you know.
1985
02:26:21,543 --> 02:26:23,477
home away from home anyway.
1986
02:26:26,682 --> 02:26:29,082
We hang around each other most of the time.
1987
02:26:29,184 --> 02:26:31,414
We know who to trust,
who not to trust.
1988
02:26:33,755 --> 02:26:36,986
I just want to go somewhere
where I'm gonna play.
1989
02:26:37,092 --> 02:26:39,060
I can get the grades.
1990
02:26:42,364 --> 02:26:44,332
I love basketball.
1991
02:26:54,643 --> 02:26:56,837
how many of your
players that leave there
1992
02:26:56,838 --> 02:26:59,080
and they end up going
to a four-year college?
1993
02:26:59,181 --> 02:27:01,081
- Thirty-one sophomores in a row.
- Really?
1994
02:27:01,183 --> 02:27:03,083
Every last one of'em he coached.
1995
02:27:03,185 --> 02:27:05,847
- hi. how you doing?
- hey. how you doing?
1996
02:27:05,954 --> 02:27:08,946
- Arthur Sr.
- Bo and Sheila have been separated.
1997
02:27:09,057 --> 02:27:13,426
She asked him to return today
over Arthur's objections.
1998
02:27:13,528 --> 02:27:15,792
I'll show you exactly
what the scholarship entails.
1999
02:27:15,897 --> 02:27:18,661
Is this a full scholarship
for the two years?
2000
02:27:18,767 --> 02:27:23,170
The reason I'm skeptical is because of
the promises that was made in the past.
2001
02:27:23,271 --> 02:27:24,895
From the time he comes down there
2002
02:27:24,896 --> 02:27:27,332
until he leaves, you will
not have a financial need.
2003
02:27:27,442 --> 02:27:30,206
Now, when you make this decision...
2004
02:27:30,312 --> 02:27:32,212
you got to live and die with it.
2005
02:27:32,314 --> 02:27:34,214
'Cause it's your decision to make.
2006
02:27:34,316 --> 02:27:38,377
Now, I'm here to support you if you -
if you done searched this whole thing.
2007
02:27:38,487 --> 02:27:40,387
And it's what you really want.
2008
02:27:40,489 --> 02:27:43,253
Not,you know,
'cause Mama said this or your dad-
2009
02:27:43,358 --> 02:27:46,384
Or because you're saving
Mama money, because if we have to...
2010
02:27:46,495 --> 02:27:48,759
we will still pay-
if you have to try to pay-
2011
02:27:48,864 --> 02:27:50,889
if we can put some-
I'm just sayin;
2012
02:27:50,999 --> 02:27:54,594
You - Understand what you're saying.
You want to save somebody money, but still -
2013
02:27:54,703 --> 02:27:56,796
But you have to still do
what is best from here.
2014
02:27:56,905 --> 02:28:00,341
But still we want the best for you -
even if you have to -
2015
02:28:00,442 --> 02:28:02,706
or we have to go in the hole, you know.
2016
02:28:02,811 --> 02:28:04,836
You understand what I'm
saying? I'm just saying.
2017
02:28:04,837 --> 02:28:06,406
But still, the decision is up to you.
2018
02:28:09,651 --> 02:28:12,245
So, what do you think?
2019
02:28:12,354 --> 02:28:14,322
Ah.
2020
02:28:16,525 --> 02:28:18,550
- Ready to sign it?
- Yeah.
2021
02:28:19,628 --> 02:28:22,620
- Yep.
- Let's do it up.
2022
02:28:28,136 --> 02:28:30,263
- What time is it?
- 1:56.
2023
02:28:30,372 --> 02:28:32,340
56.
2024
02:28:44,986 --> 02:28:46,715
Come on, Bo.
Whip it to him.
2025
02:28:46,822 --> 02:28:49,222
When I was 23, how old was he?
2026
02:28:49,324 --> 02:28:51,224
And I whupped him then.
2027
02:28:53,228 --> 02:28:54,889
Aw!
2028
02:28:54,996 --> 02:28:56,964
You want to see it rain?
2029
02:28:57,065 --> 02:28:59,966
Let it rain.!
2030
02:29:00,068 --> 02:29:02,502
- You want to see it rain?
- One more time.
2031
02:29:02,604 --> 02:29:04,799
Let it rain!
2032
02:29:04,906 --> 02:29:07,067
You want to see it rain?
2033
02:29:07,175 --> 02:29:09,473
Let it rain!
2034
02:29:09,578 --> 02:29:11,546
Oh!
2035
02:29:13,348 --> 02:29:15,976
Peoria Manual.
Remember what they did to you now.
2036
02:29:16,084 --> 02:29:18,177
Yeah. Do you know howard Nathan?
2037
02:29:18,286 --> 02:29:20,914
And I strung him up,
just like that.
2038
02:29:23,759 --> 02:29:27,820
Uh-oh. Like father, like son.
What's up with that?
2039
02:29:27,929 --> 02:29:30,659
You better stick to church music,
leave that basketball alone.
2040
02:29:36,138 --> 02:29:39,630
hell, no. You can't do that.
2041
02:29:39,741 --> 02:29:41,868
Foul! Foul!
2042
02:29:43,712 --> 02:29:45,612
Foul. Foul, foul, foul.
2043
02:29:45,714 --> 02:29:47,614
- That's 32.
- That's 34.
2044
02:29:47,716 --> 02:29:49,616
- 34!
- That didn't count 'cause he called "Bo. "
2045
02:29:49,718 --> 02:29:52,152
- That's 34!
- That's 32!
2046
02:29:52,254 --> 02:29:54,154
- he didn't hit nothing else.!
- I did!
2047
02:29:54,256 --> 02:29:56,781
- he didn't hit nothing else!
- It's 34-28, Bo.
2048
02:29:56,892 --> 02:29:58,792
- Bo's a sore loser.
- All right!
2049
02:29:58,894 --> 02:30:02,227
- No. I know how to count though.
- Ain't no con game. I'm older now.
2050
02:30:02,330 --> 02:30:04,423
- Yeah.
- Ain't no con game going on no more.
2051
02:30:04,533 --> 02:30:07,661
- No more. Ain't no more.
- The score is 32 to 28.
2052
02:30:07,769 --> 02:30:10,329
Now, you can play for 32 if you want to.
2053
02:30:10,438 --> 02:30:12,804
Game over with.
I can con too.
2054
02:30:12,908 --> 02:30:15,206
Losers quit. I'm ready to play.
2055
02:30:15,310 --> 02:30:17,141
Now,youse a coward if you don't-
Check ball.
2056
02:30:17,245 --> 02:30:19,372
- You're mad now.
- Check ball.
2057
02:30:19,481 --> 02:30:20,349
- Throw it over there.
2058
02:30:20,350 --> 02:30:22,678
- You ain't two years old.
You ain't gettin' no pacifier.
2059
02:30:22,784 --> 02:30:24,684
- Give me that.
- Yeah.
2060
02:30:24,786 --> 02:30:27,619
Your mama ain't here
to give you this ball. Let's go.
2061
02:30:27,722 --> 02:30:30,247
- Give me the rock.
- Let's make it rain. Make it rain.
2062
02:30:32,360 --> 02:30:34,828
Bang. Bang. Right there.
2063
02:30:34,930 --> 02:30:37,899
ha! Go sit down.
Go sit down.
2064
02:30:37,999 --> 02:30:40,331
Bo, it's raining.!
2065
02:30:40,435 --> 02:30:42,403
Bo, it's raining.
2066
02:30:42,504 --> 02:30:44,404
- It's raining, Bo!
- It's raining, Bo!
2067
02:30:44,506 --> 02:30:47,304
You're on punishment when you get home.
You're on punishment when you get home.
2068
02:30:47,409 --> 02:30:51,140
And you're on punishment
when you get home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
2069
02:30:52,581 --> 02:30:54,708
It's gonna rain on your head, Bo.
2070
02:31:00,055 --> 02:31:02,182
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen...
2071
02:31:02,290 --> 02:31:05,919
and welcome to St. Joseph's
Annual Basketball Awards Dinner.
2072
02:31:06,027 --> 02:31:08,791
We had a...
2073
02:31:08,897 --> 02:31:10,888
difficult year.
2074
02:31:10,999 --> 02:31:12,899
Most of you are aware of that.
2075
02:31:13,001 --> 02:31:14,329
When I first went to St. Joe's,
2076
02:31:14,330 --> 02:31:16,164
I really did sleep, eat
and drink basketball.
2077
02:31:16,271 --> 02:31:18,171
That was all I did.
2078
02:31:18,273 --> 02:31:22,403
But it became more of a job
than a sport to play.
2079
02:31:22,510 --> 02:31:25,445
Things here have not changed since-
2080
02:31:25,547 --> 02:31:30,484
You know, Coach Pingatore
just had these dreams in his head.
2081
02:31:32,487 --> 02:31:36,514
hejust wanted me to go
the same route he took Isiah.
2082
02:31:37,559 --> 02:31:40,392
The most steals.
2083
02:31:40,495 --> 02:31:45,455
he played as a freshman.
Not even Isiah was a four-year starter.
2084
02:31:45,567 --> 02:31:48,866
You know, basketball was just like-
he was possessed with it.
2085
02:31:48,970 --> 02:31:51,029
You know, it was his life.
2086
02:31:51,139 --> 02:31:53,733
And he wanted it to be
everybody else's life too.
2087
02:31:53,842 --> 02:31:56,072
All-conference in the SCC.
2088
02:31:56,177 --> 02:31:58,145
All-state in the Sun-Times.
2089
02:31:58,246 --> 02:32:01,272
A McDonald All-American nomination.
2090
02:32:01,383 --> 02:32:07,288
M. V.P., 1990-1991 season,
William Gates.
2091
02:32:26,408 --> 02:32:28,467
When I had some real problems...
2092
02:32:28,576 --> 02:32:31,010
I couldn't go to
none of them about it.
2093
02:32:33,181 --> 02:32:36,514
You know, I was having some problems
with Catherine's family and my family...
2094
02:32:36,618 --> 02:32:40,987
and I said, you know, "Coach Pingatore,
their family's been getting on me about...
2095
02:32:41,089 --> 02:32:44,183
you know, I'm not doing this,
and I'm not doing that. "
2096
02:32:44,292 --> 02:32:46,726
And the only thing
Coach Pingatore could say is...
2097
02:32:47,762 --> 02:32:49,662
"Write 'em off. "
2098
02:32:49,764 --> 02:32:51,253
That was all he told me.
2099
02:32:51,254 --> 02:32:54,292
And I was, like, "What
kind of advice is that?"
2100
02:32:58,540 --> 02:33:01,475
Well, how's it feel to be finishing?
2101
02:33:03,678 --> 02:33:06,112
Uh, I mean-
2102
02:33:07,949 --> 02:33:09,940
Now, don't say anything
you don't mean, William.
2103
02:33:10,051 --> 02:33:13,020
I mean, I'm serious, Coach.
I enjoyed my four years.
2104
02:33:13,121 --> 02:33:15,589
I mean, we had our run-ins, and, uh -
2105
02:33:15,690 --> 02:33:17,590
- Who had run-ins?
- Me and you.
2106
02:33:17,692 --> 02:33:18,294
- We did?
2107
02:33:18,295 --> 02:33:20,855
- Yeah. Like that time
you made me run 75 stairs.
2108
02:33:20,962 --> 02:33:22,930
- I never f-
- You never forgot that.
2109
02:33:23,031 --> 02:33:24,931
Never.
2110
02:33:25,033 --> 02:33:27,941
See,you should have been
happy and enthusiastic
2111
02:33:27,942 --> 02:33:29,595
about doing your punishment.
2112
02:33:29,704 --> 02:33:34,198
But someday
you're gonna learn that, uh...
2113
02:33:34,309 --> 02:33:36,573
everything that was done
was for your benefit.
2114
02:33:36,678 --> 02:33:39,623
So that you can come
back four years from now
2115
02:33:39,624 --> 02:33:41,547
and say, "Coach,you were right.
2116
02:33:41,649 --> 02:33:44,083
"Everything that happened
at St. Joe's helped me a lot...
2117
02:33:44,185 --> 02:33:46,153
and as a result I got a degree. '"
2118
02:33:46,254 --> 02:33:48,154
That's what I'm hoping for.
2119
02:33:48,256 --> 02:33:50,588
I'm going into communication...
2120
02:33:50,692 --> 02:33:54,753
so when you start asking for a donation,
I'll know the right way to turn you down.
2121
02:33:54,863 --> 02:33:57,798
I'm sure you'll never turn us down.
2122
02:33:57,899 --> 02:33:59,799
Ah.
2123
02:34:01,836 --> 02:34:06,603
I never really felt
that he bought into the system.
2124
02:34:06,708 --> 02:34:10,144
he was never convinced
what he was doing was the right thing to do.
2125
02:34:11,179 --> 02:34:14,444
But overall he had a good career-
not a great career.
2126
02:34:14,549 --> 02:34:16,449
It's never good-bye.
2127
02:34:16,551 --> 02:34:19,452
Could've been different
if the injury didn't occur.
2128
02:34:19,554 --> 02:34:21,647
But it did occur.
2129
02:34:21,756 --> 02:34:24,850
- And that was the big difference.
- I'm proud of what you did.
2130
02:34:24,959 --> 02:34:27,120
- Okay.
- I expect you to do a lot better.
2131
02:34:27,228 --> 02:34:29,128
I don't want this to be the-
2132
02:34:29,230 --> 02:34:31,198
- Yeah.
- You know, the highlight of your career.
2133
02:34:31,299 --> 02:34:33,995
You've got a lot of
bigger and better things to do.
2134
02:34:34,102 --> 02:34:36,502
I'll see you later.
Good luck.
2135
02:34:39,808 --> 02:34:41,776
Well...
2136
02:34:43,044 --> 02:34:46,172
another one walks out the door,
and another one comes in the door.
2137
02:34:46,281 --> 02:34:48,215
That's what it's all about.
2138
02:35:26,688 --> 02:35:28,656
It came through for me.
2139
02:35:28,756 --> 02:35:31,224
- Got the score I needed.
- All right.
2140
02:35:31,326 --> 02:35:33,226
And, hey...
2141
02:35:34,262 --> 02:35:36,162
I'm eligible.
2142
02:35:37,432 --> 02:35:40,023
You know, this is one
of the greatest feelings
2143
02:35:40,024 --> 02:35:41,732
in the world. That's about it.
2144
02:35:41,836 --> 02:35:43,736
I mean -
2145
02:35:45,607 --> 02:35:49,441
After five attempts,
William's composite score of 17.5...
2146
02:35:49,544 --> 02:35:51,444
is rounded up to 18...
2147
02:35:51,546 --> 02:35:55,277
and he can finally accept a scholarship
to play at Marquette.
2148
02:36:20,775 --> 02:36:23,335
I think my mom...
2149
02:36:23,444 --> 02:36:27,210
all through high school
really, really was proud of me.
2150
02:36:27,315 --> 02:36:30,182
She said, "Everybody's throwing
their dreams into you...
2151
02:36:30,285 --> 02:36:33,721
but you got to throw
your own dreams into yourself. '"
2152
02:36:42,664 --> 02:36:45,724
When I gave her the diploma
after the graduation...
2153
02:36:45,833 --> 02:36:50,361
she was, like,
"This is it, one of my proudest moments. '"
2154
02:37:03,751 --> 02:37:05,878
My baby graduated.
2155
02:37:10,291 --> 02:37:13,260
Curtis always wanted to go to Marquette...
2156
02:37:13,361 --> 02:37:16,262
and his grades weren't
good enough for him to go...
2157
02:37:16,364 --> 02:37:20,357
and now it's like
he got the grades,you know?
2158
02:37:22,537 --> 02:37:25,700
Excuse me, Curtis.
You gonna give anybody else a chance?
2159
02:37:25,807 --> 02:37:28,867
What two countries
are we competing with for world trade?
2160
02:37:28,977 --> 02:37:32,413
Before Arthur can graduate,
he must pass summer school.
2161
02:37:32,513 --> 02:37:35,744
And for the first time in three years,
Shannon isn't there with him.
2162
02:37:35,850 --> 02:37:37,818
The other country, of course, we said-
2163
02:37:37,919 --> 02:37:41,719
he thought he could sell drugs
and don't get caught,you know.
2164
02:37:41,823 --> 02:37:43,723
But he found out the hard way.
2165
02:37:43,825 --> 02:37:45,657
And I told him, while
he was doing all that -
2166
02:37:45,658 --> 02:37:47,090
I wasn't hanging with Shannon then.
2167
02:37:47,195 --> 02:37:49,862
I was like, man, "Shannon,
you should stop, man.
2168
02:37:49,863 --> 02:37:51,222
Stop doing that stuff. "
2169
02:37:54,669 --> 02:37:58,571
We always said we weren't
gonna never do no stufflike that.
2170
02:37:58,673 --> 02:38:02,575
We werejust gonna go on
and graduate and go on to college.
2171
02:38:02,677 --> 02:38:06,044
But,you know, he had to be the one.
2172
02:38:16,491 --> 02:38:20,621
One week before his graduation,
Arthur is robbed at gunpoint.
2173
02:38:21,663 --> 02:38:25,360
At first I thought he was gonna shoot me
because I didn't have no money.
2174
02:38:26,401 --> 02:38:29,928
'Cause he kept asking me, "You got -
You got some money. Where your wallet at?"
2175
02:38:30,038 --> 02:38:32,319
Be like, "What you driving
a car like this for?"
2176
02:38:32,320 --> 02:38:34,134
I was, like, "I ain't got no wallet. "
2177
02:38:37,278 --> 02:38:39,906
And then,you know,
he grabbed me and stuff,and I was-
2178
02:38:40,014 --> 02:38:44,383
and I was about to panic and stuff,
and I just calmed down.
2179
02:38:47,955 --> 02:38:51,391
I sit down
and had a long talk with him and his sister.
2180
02:38:51,492 --> 02:38:54,950
Someone pulled a pistol on her
right down the street from the house.
2181
02:38:56,064 --> 02:38:59,046
I said, "Do you all
understand what is going on
2182
02:38:59,047 --> 02:39:01,092
out here in these streets today?'"
2183
02:39:01,202 --> 02:39:05,639
Even with me, when I was out there -
you know, out there strung out -
2184
02:39:05,740 --> 02:39:09,471
you know, I looked for somebody
that seemed like they had something.
2185
02:39:11,079 --> 02:39:15,448
hmm. After this, I -
2186
02:39:15,550 --> 02:39:19,714
I - I'm ready.
I'm ready to leave.
2187
02:39:19,821 --> 02:39:21,721
'Cause there ain't no -
2188
02:39:21,823 --> 02:39:25,850
Everybody up here going to jail
or- or either in drugs.
2189
02:39:26,894 --> 02:39:28,862
Or dead.
2190
02:40:05,900 --> 02:40:07,868
James Davis.
2191
02:40:19,580 --> 02:40:22,105
Arthur Agee.
2192
02:40:24,285 --> 02:40:28,051
Please hold your applause
so everyone can hear.
2193
02:40:28,156 --> 02:40:30,124
Christine Bowman.
2194
02:40:32,627 --> 02:40:34,595
Erica Byrd.
2195
02:40:37,532 --> 02:40:39,693
Sandra Crockett.
2196
02:40:41,469 --> 02:40:45,963
I never thought he would
get to the place where he's at now.
2197
02:40:48,109 --> 02:40:53,172
Arthur's self-esteem
was really drained from St. Joseph's.
2198
02:40:53,281 --> 02:40:55,841
I said, "Well,you are somebody.
2199
02:40:55,950 --> 02:40:58,714
"No matter where you go,
it's what you have in your heart...
2200
02:40:58,820 --> 02:41:01,550
that you're gonna go somewhere. '"
2201
02:41:14,402 --> 02:41:16,962
Come on.
Move out of the way, boy.
2202
02:41:21,242 --> 02:41:23,008
Everybody out there, there's gonna be
2203
02:41:23,009 --> 02:41:25,303
a party tonight. There's
gonna be a party tonight.
2204
02:41:25,413 --> 02:41:27,313
You know it.
2205
02:41:27,415 --> 02:41:30,111
These flame-broiled burgers -
2206
02:42:00,515 --> 02:42:02,415
It's scary, man. I'm telling you.
2207
02:42:02,517 --> 02:42:04,985
I'm telling you the truth.
Scary generation, man.
2208
02:42:06,220 --> 02:42:08,468
- I thought you might
hit me in my head, fool.
2209
02:42:08,469 --> 02:42:09,951
- I didn't hit you in your head.
2210
02:42:10,057 --> 02:42:12,082
To my son.
2211
02:42:12,193 --> 02:42:15,685
I hope you pursue all your dreams
and your desires...
2212
02:42:15,796 --> 02:42:17,764
that you have within you.
2213
02:42:17,865 --> 02:42:20,129
I love you very much.
2214
02:42:20,234 --> 02:42:23,897
- Ooh, that is so nice.
- Whatever.
2215
02:42:24,005 --> 02:42:26,496
Oh, no.!
2216
02:42:45,426 --> 02:42:47,690
God, we thank you
for this day, Lord.
2217
02:42:47,795 --> 02:42:50,389
And we ask you to
go with junior, Lord.
2218
02:42:50,498 --> 02:42:54,161
And we thank you, Lord. Go with him
as he try to better his education, Lord.
2219
02:42:54,268 --> 02:42:56,896
And we thank you for him
for coming this far.
2220
02:42:57,004 --> 02:42:58,995
We came this far by faith, Lord.
2221
02:42:59,106 --> 02:43:01,802
And we ask you, Father,
when he get in college, Lord...
2222
02:43:01,909 --> 02:43:04,104
to keep him, Lord-
keep him protected.
2223
02:43:04,211 --> 02:43:06,111
We thank you for him,Jesus.
2224
02:43:06,213 --> 02:43:09,182
- In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
- Amen.
2225
02:43:09,283 --> 02:43:13,310
Oh,you can cry like a river, girl.
2226
02:43:13,421 --> 02:43:15,946
You're crying so bad,
I won't even make fun of you.
2227
02:43:22,263 --> 02:43:24,231
Oh, God.
2228
02:43:42,450 --> 02:43:44,918
- I'm gonna miss you.
- I'll miss you too.
2229
02:43:45,953 --> 02:43:47,978
I want you to be good, okay?
2230
02:43:48,089 --> 02:43:53,288
And don't, uh, get mixed up in
none of that old stuff that, uh, you know.
2231
02:43:53,394 --> 02:43:56,090
I done told you what to do.
2232
02:43:56,197 --> 02:43:59,496
Don't get no alcohol, no wine coolers.
2233
02:43:59,600 --> 02:44:02,194
None of that stuff.
2234
02:44:19,787 --> 02:44:21,755
Bye-bye.
2235
02:44:26,127 --> 02:44:30,120
I just hope he stay in there.
That's what worries me most.
2236
02:44:31,899 --> 02:44:35,665
Once he get in the door,
I want him to stay in there for four years.
2237
02:44:38,739 --> 02:44:40,934
Think he gonna make it?
2238
02:44:41,042 --> 02:44:43,010
You do?
2239
02:44:44,779 --> 02:44:47,247
I think he gonna make it.
2240
02:44:49,016 --> 02:44:50,984
Well, I hope so anyway.
2241
02:45:18,679 --> 02:45:22,843
When I was young- When I was little,
that's all I used to think about- the NBA.
2242
02:45:25,219 --> 02:45:27,551
If I set my mind, I can - I can go.
2243
02:45:27,655 --> 02:45:29,555
I can st - I can go.
2244
02:45:29,657 --> 02:45:31,989
Get in good college. I can go.
2245
02:45:33,094 --> 02:45:36,586
But if I don't, you know, I ain't gonna be
no drug dealer, you know...
2246
02:45:36,697 --> 02:45:39,598
cry about it,
come back and, you know...
2247
02:45:39,700 --> 02:45:42,965
stick up gas stations
or nothing like that, you know.
2248
02:45:43,070 --> 02:45:46,164
Probably go into comedian or architecture,
something like that.
2249
02:45:51,245 --> 02:45:56,012
You don't think that you'll have the kind
of tough times like your dad's been through?
2250
02:45:56,117 --> 02:45:58,813
No.
2251
02:45:58,919 --> 02:46:03,219
I can't say- I can't say that I will.
I can't say that I don't. I don't know.
2252
02:46:28,482 --> 02:46:30,275
Four years ago, that's all
2253
02:46:30,276 --> 02:46:33,181
I used to dream about
was playing in the NBA.
2254
02:46:33,287 --> 02:46:35,653
I don't really dream about it
like that anymore.
2255
02:46:36,690 --> 02:46:39,420
You know, even though...
2256
02:46:39,527 --> 02:46:42,462
I love playing basketball, but, you know...
2257
02:46:42,563 --> 02:46:45,293
I want to do other things
with my life too.
2258
02:46:45,399 --> 02:46:47,458
- Say, "hi, Daddy. '"
- hi, Daddy.
2259
02:46:47,568 --> 02:46:49,866
- "how you doing?'"
- how you doing?
2260
02:46:49,970 --> 02:46:51,870
- Say, "I love you. '"
- I love you.
2261
02:46:52,973 --> 02:46:57,273
If I had to stop playing basketball
right now, I think I'd still be happy.
2262
02:46:57,378 --> 02:47:00,211
- I think I would.
- Thank you, Daddy.
2263
02:47:00,314 --> 02:47:03,044
- Where'd Daddy get to?
- Uh, Marquette.
2264
02:47:03,150 --> 02:47:05,118
Marquette?
2265
02:47:07,154 --> 02:47:09,520
That's why when
somebody say,you know...
2266
02:47:09,623 --> 02:47:10,750
"When you get to the NBA,
2267
02:47:10,751 --> 02:47:12,683
don't forget about me,
'"and all that stuff...
2268
02:47:12,793 --> 02:47:15,099
I should say to them,
"Well, if I don't make it,
2269
02:47:15,100 --> 02:47:16,695
watch you don't forget about me. '"
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